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title: Community subscriptions
description: Using subscriptions, you can choose specific areas of interest. Your activity feed and notifications are personalized according to your subscriptions.
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release: australia
product: Communities
classification: communities
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
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# Community subscriptions

Using subscriptions, you can choose specific areas of interest. Your activity feed and notifications are personalized according to your subscriptions.

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Subscription type

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Description/Features

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Subscription

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-   Subscribe or unsubscribe to forums, topics, and community content \(questions, answers, blogs, and video\).
-   Auto-subscribe: Whenever you post content, you are automatically subscribed to the content itself. You are also automatically subscribed when you post a reply or a comment.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Activity feed

</td><td>

Displays activities based on your subscriptions with the most recent at the top.

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Notification settings

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-   Manage your subscriptions using **Notification Settings**.
-   For each of your subscriptions, set email notifications using **Notification Preferences**.

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</table>-   **[Subscribe to content](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/subscribe.md)**  
Subscribe to forums, topics, questions, blogs, and videos. You are automatically subscribed to content that you create.
-   **[Set notification preferences](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/manage-subscriptions.md)**  
Set notification preferences to receive updates via email on the content that you are following.

**Parent Topic:**[Using communities](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/customer-service-management/communities/using-communities.md)

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