# Mic Check -- Is This Thing On?

**URL:** <https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/mic-check-is-this-thing-on/5772>\
**Category:** News\
**Created:** [July 29, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/mic-check-is-this-thing-on/5772 "2025-07-29T13:27:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/jimsculley/32/5190_2.png) [@JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/JimSculley)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/mic-check-is-this-thing-on/5772/1 "2025-07-29T13:27:51Z")

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Yesterday morning I made an announcement post which should have sent a notification to everyone. Can a few of you confirm that you received a notification for a topic with the title:

**Site Issues After Upgrade**

I just want to confirm that the global notification system work properly.

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**Author:** ![josh](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/josh/32/30_2.png) [@josh](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/josh)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/mic-check-is-this-thing-on/5772/2 "2025-07-29T13:29:41Z")

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What sort of notification?

 ![image](https://forum.cadmunity.com/uploads/default/original/2X/8/816c6e93f0251fca86a80a79e9b8b07958f17a17.png)

Not seeing anything in my email either, although I think I’ve turned off about all the email notifications I could.

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**Author:** ![Frederick\_Law](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/frederick_law/32/8_2.png) [@Frederick\_Law](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/Frederick_Law)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/mic-check-is-this-thing-on/5772/3 "2025-07-29T13:39:32Z")

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Nope, didn’t get anything.

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**Author:** ![JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/user_avatar/forum.cadmunity.com/jimsculley/32/5190_2.png) [@JimSculley](https://forum.cadmunity.com/u/JimSculley)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://forum.cadmunity.com/t/mic-check-is-this-thing-on/5772/4 "2025-07-29T14:00:17Z")

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Basically, there is a category called **Announcements** and it is set up so that only admins can create topics and all users are set to be watching for the first post of any topic in the category. So, if an admin creates a topic there, all users should be notified. The notification would be on the site (and via email if you haven’t turned off email notifications).

The site notifications are only useful if you can access the site. So, if something goes awry (e.g. the [www.cadmunity.com](http://www.cadmunity.com) and [cadmunity.com](http://cadmunity.com) domains not working correctly), people might think the whole site is broken. An email notification would explain the problem and the solution (use [forum.cadmunity.com](http://forum.cadmunity.com)).

Looking at things, I may have missed a permission. I’m going to send a test announcement to see if it’s working.