Settings

Settings is a tabbed page. Two tabs answer two different questions, and which further tabs you get depends on which side of the marketplace you are on.

Everyone

Account is who you are here and how you get in: your email address, your password, the devices this account is signed in on, and deleting it. Changing a password asks for the current one first. If you are hiring, it also holds your name, company name, photo, country and website, which is what a freelancer sees when you message them or read your job post.

Preferences is how the product behaves for you: your time zone, what you hear about, and marketing email. Nothing here has a Save button. Every switch saves itself and says so, because a preference with one value and no form around it is not a form.

Each notification group is one switch and it governs both channels. Switching one off means the notification is never created, so it never reaches your notification centre and is never emailed either. Marketing email is separate, because it is not about your account: muting a group here does not unsubscribe you from it, and unsubscribing does not mute anything.

Two notification groups cannot be switched off: account notices and moderation notices. A warning you can mute is a warning that did not happen, and an ID verdict is the one thing in this product you must not miss.

Read receipts

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