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Published: June 25, 2026

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The [Web Platform Status dashboard](https://webstatus.dev/) helps developers
understand the interoperability of web features through clear tagging of their
[Baseline](https://web.dev/baseline) status---but knowing the moment a feature becomes
interoperable takes effort. You must check the dashboard periodically to see if
a feature becomes Baseline, or discover it elsewhere. This delays adoption, and
you might forget.

With Baseline Alerts added to the dashboard, you can be notified about changes
in the web features you care about. This feature is more than convenient: It
lessens the time between awareness of a feature and adoption of it.

## How do Baseline Alerts work?

Go to the [Web Platform Status dashboard](https://webstatus.dev/) and sign in
with GitHub. After you sign in, a **Subscriptions** button appears.

- On the home page, you can subscribe to all features.
- On an individual feature's page---such as [JPEG
  XL](https://webstatus.dev/features/jpegxl), for example---you can subscribe to updates for that feature.
- On a saved search page, such as for all [CSS
  features](https://webstatus.dev/?q=saved:77511766-cef9-48be-992f-2a60a19b4d4b), you can subscribe to updates for the features in that search.

The **Subscriptions** dialog lets you choose the notifications you want and the
frequency:
![The Subscriptions dialog showing notification triggers and frequency settings.](https://web.dev/static/blog/baseline-alerts/image/fig-1.png) The Subscriptions dialog on webstatus.dev lets you choose the triggers and frequency for when you receive alerts.

A subscription can trigger an email notification or update a custom RSS feed
when features:

- Become Widely available
- Become Newly available
- Get a new browser implementation
- Regress to limited availability

You can opt to receive these changes every month, week, or every time the
underlying feature changes. Once subscribed, manage your subscription by
selecting the **Subscriptions** menu item.

## How are Baseline Alerts useful?

Baseline Alerts let you receive email notifications about web feature status,
but you can also use them for other tasks.

### Create a personalized newsletter

Baseline Alerts are useful because you can scope them to the features you care
about. This lets you create a personalized newsletter for specific features. For
example, you can list all HTML web features with the `group:html` query. From
the results page, save the search.
![The Web Platform Status dashboard showing search results for HTML features and the 'Save search' button.](https://web.dev/static/blog/baseline-alerts/image/fig-2.png) Save searches on webstatus.dev for any query you want to keep track of.

Once the search is saved, you'll be able to subscribe to updates to its
features.
![The Subscriptions dialog for a saved search, showing options to receive notifications via email or RSS.](https://web.dev/static/blog/baseline-alerts/image/fig-3.png) To get Baseline Alerts for features matching a saved search, subscribe to that search.

In this example, you'd get an alert every time an HTML feature becomes Baseline
Newly available or Widely available. The query syntax for the Web Platform
Status dashboard is also more flexible than for just groups. You can save a
search for any query you can come up with and create a custom feature set for
which you can receive notifications. For more information, see the [query
grammar](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/webstatus.dev/blob/main/antlr/FeatureSearch.md).

### Create shareable lists

You can also share saved searches. You can do this using the URL---which is
viewable by anyone who has it---or you can generate a QR code for that page.
Select the share icon on the saved search page.

This is useful for content creators and web influencers, who can share a list of
features with their audience in videos and conference talks. It gives your
audience a way to get in-depth information about the features you want them to
use.

### Slack webhooks

If you run a Slack channel, you can use Baseline Alerts to send feature updates
to a Slack webhook URL. To do this, select **Notification channels** in the
left-hand menu, and you'll see a section labeled **Webhook**. From there, you
can add a Slack webhook URL and give it a name. Once you've added it, you can
set it as a notification target when you subscribe to features.
![The Notification channels settings page showing a webhook section with a field for a Slack webhook URL.](https://web.dev/static/blog/baseline-alerts/image/fig-4.png) Send requests automatically to a Slack webhook URL based on your subscription preferences.

In the future, we hope to expand this feature so that webhooks can be used
across more services, such as creation of issues on GitHub, and other useful
development tools.

## Give it a try!

Baseline Alerts accelerate the discovery of interoperable features so you can
begin developing with them sooner. To provide feedback, [file an issue on the
webstatus.dev GitHub
repository](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/webstatus.dev/issues/new/choose).