Updates

Friday afternoon. Andrei opens Terranos and the Updates tab has a small badge: 3 new. Two are about activities he's joined — one got rescheduled, one had its meeting point changed. The third is a review request for a trip he completed last week. He taps each in turn and the badge clears.

Updates is the noticeboard for things you should be aware of but that aren't a conversation. Different from Messages because there's nothing to reply to — these are administrative notifications, not chat.

What appears here

Updates are scoped to things that affect you specifically:

• Activity rescheduled — date, time, or meeting point changed.
• Activity cancelled — by the organizer or auto-cancelled because of notFormed.
• Approval decision — your join request was approved or rejected.
• Waitlist promoted — a spot opened up on an activity you were waitlisted for.
• Review request — an activity you completed is ready for a review.
• Equipment match — a participant matched with you to lend or borrow gear.
• Transport offer changes — the offer you reserved on was updated (price, time, route) or cancelled.
• Admin notice — the platform admins flagged something on your account or sent a system-wide message.

What does NOT appear here

By design, Updates is not a feed of everything happening:

• Per-thread chat doesn't show here. Use Messages.
• Public comments on an activity don't show here. Open the activity.
• General activity changes by people other than the organizer (someone joining or leaving) don't show here.
• Marketing or promotional content from the platform never appears here.

Earlier versions of Terranos mixed transport and equipment operational events into Updates. They've been moved to their own Transport and Equipment tabs in the Messages hub. If you're seeing a transport thing in Updates, it's a piece of admin-level info (e.g., "the offer you reserved was cancelled") — not the operational chatter.

Reading updates

Tap an update row to open the relevant context:

• An activity update opens the activity page, scrolled to whatever changed.
• A review request opens the review composer.
• A waitlist-promoted update opens the activity with the join sheet pre-filled to accept the spot.

Each update is one row with a short title, a one-line summary, and the time. Most resolve in a single tap.

Mark all as read

Below the top menu, Mark all as read clears the unread state for the currently selected tab.

This affects only the Updates tab — Messages, Transport, Equipment are independent. If you mark all updates as read but have unread messages, the messages tab still shows its badge.

Notifications and updates

Most updates also trigger a push notification (if you have push enabled in Profile > Notifications). The notification is the prompt; the Updates tab is the durable record.

If you missed a push (phone was off, did-not-disturb), the update is still there in the tab when you open the app. Updates don't expire — they stay until you read them or until they age out (the platform discards stale updates after several months).

Per-category preferences

Profile > Notifications lets you turn each update category on or off independently:

• Activity changes (rescheduled, cancelled, etc.).
• Approval decisions.
• Waitlist promotions.
• Review requests.
• Equipment matches.
• Transport changes.
• Admin notices.

Turning a category off stops both the push notification and the in-app entry — you won't see the update at all. Use this if a specific category is noisy for your usage pattern.

When something looks off

• The badge says I have unread updates but the tab is empty. A sync glitch. Pull to refresh; if it persists, restart the app.
• An update opens the wrong screen. The deep link inside the update may be stale (the activity was deleted, the review window closed). The update is dead at that point — mark it read and move on.
• I never get a review-request update. Check whether you're actually marked completed for the activity. If the organizer marked you noShow (by mistake or otherwise), no review request is generated. Talk to the organizer.
• I'm getting Updates pushes for activities I'm no longer in. After you cancel participation, the next push or two might still fire because of in-flight notifications. They stop quickly. If they don't, contact Support.