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We now support email and push notifications.

Available on the Members page under the Settings tab, please enjoy both email and push notification options.

For email notifications, simply provide whatever email address you want notifications sent to. You can then turn on or off different notification types.

For push notifications, just visit the Settings link from whatever device you want push notifications on. Click enable, and grant permission. Then select what types of notifications you want pushed to your device.

It’s that simple.

On iPhone or iPad, the process is a little different but the end result is really great: In Safari, while you’re browsing YA, click the Share button. Then scroll to choose “Add to Home Screen.”

At this point, you've added our little website as a web app on your iPhone/iPad. You can then head to Members->Settings to enable push notifications as usual.

Now that you’ve enabled push notifications, you'll receive only the notifications you want, delivered instantly when something you care about happens on YA.

Whether email or push notifications, whatever method you choose, remember to toggle on or off different notification types to your heart's desire in order to make the experience exactly what you want.

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That's right! And also, this is the first test of the new Quote Reply system.

We have a new feature! This one is important. 

Export Your Data!

I don't believe in locking users into a given platform. That's why one of the first priorities on the feature list for this platform has been data export.

The way it works is this: You can request a Data Export (limited to once every 24 hours, which should be more than often enough!). The export includes a simple, self-contained file named index.html, and you can open it in any web browser to view your posts chronologically.

For the nerds:

The data will also be available as subfolders for each post, named by date/timestamp of the post. Each post folder has a markdown file you can open in any text editor, and it will have the content of the post (as however it displayed on the site at the time of the export).

These timestamped folders and markdown files are useful for if you ever need to take your data elsewhere.

In addition, there's metadata about the post, its Post ID on YA.town, for example, and a markdown table at the bottom listing all media that was uploaded and used.

The images themselves are stored in the post folder beside the post's markdown text file.

The format of a post's export file (example.md) looks like the following: 

1# Post from December 27, 2025 at 09:26 PM23My motto.4[image:3a7ff239142c4dbf9ece49694dfd3ea9]56—- 78## Post Details910| Field | Value |11|-------|--——-|12| **Post ID** | `H3p60Y2kc7Y9gX` |13| **Created** | December 27, 2025 at 09:26 PM |14| **Pinned** | December 28, 2025 at 05:43 PM |1516## Attached Images1718| # | Media Key | Alt Text | Filename |19|---|-----------|----------|----———|20| 1 | `3a7ff239142c4dbf9ece49694dfd3ea9` | I was helping but I made it worse | c33e0a2baa034ecf8d1176b077b5f263.gif |

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Hi Oswaldo!

This is a picture of @sweetpea from when we went to see the Meijer Gardens in Grand Rapids. And also @manicmissfrizzle!

Well, well, well.