Status: Available Post an announcement that reaches every member in your community through their alerts.
An announcement is a message you send to everyone in your community. It lands in each member's alerts area, so it's the right tool for a deliberate, community-wide notice like a policy change, an event reminder, or a heads-up about maintenance.
Post an announcement
You create announcements in Announcements (/admin/content/announcement):
- Open Announcements (
/admin/content/announcement). - Click Create Item.
- Write your announcement.
- Save.
How members see it
The announcement appears in every member's alerts. Members can mark all as read, but there's no per-item dismiss, so they clear the whole set at once.
An announcement goes to everyone at once and stays until a member clears it. There's no scheduling, no way to target a subset of members, and no expiry date.
A lighter option: automatic content cards
You don't always need a full announcement. When you publish a blog post, course, group, event, product, or plan, TribeCrafter automatically posts a card about it to the newsfeed. Members scrolling the feed see your new content without you announcing it. So for "we just added X," publishing the content already gives it visibility.
Which to use
| You want to... | Use |
|---|---|
| Put a message in every member's alerts | An announcement |
| Let members know about new content you published | Nothing. The automatic content card handles it |
| Show a short, timely line across the top of the screen | The announcement banner |
| Show a promo card in the newsfeed sidebar | The promo widget |