If you wish to be alerted about new notifications and incoming messages on the Vivaldi Forum instantly, you can enable sound effects. Then, while you have the Forum open in a tab, you’ll hear a little sound whenever something new pops up.

To enable sounds:

1. Click on your profile picture in the top right corner and select “Settings“.
2. Scroll to the end of the page to find Sound settings.
3. Select the sound you like for notifications, incoming messages, and outgoing messages.
4. Click “Save changes”.

When someone replies to a topic you’ve commented on on the Vivaldi Forum, then of course you want to see what they say and you click on the notification to be taken to the topic. But some notifications are just informational. In that case, you can mark them read without opening the topic.

To mark a notification as read:

1. Open the notifications menu.
2. Click on the little circle above the notification time on the right side.

To mark all notifications read, click on “Mark all read” at the bottom of the list.