# Subscribe from the Web UI You can use the Web UI to subscribe to topics as well. If you do, and you keep the website open, **notifications will pop up as desktop notifications**. Simply type in the topic name and click the *Subscribe* button. The browser will keep a connection open and listen for incoming notifications. To learn how to send messages, check out the [publishing page](../publish.md). <div id="web-screenshots" class="screenshots"> <a href="../../static/img/web-detail.png"><img src="../../static/img/web-detail.png"/></a> <a href="../../static/img/web-notification.png"><img src="../../static/img/web-notification.png"/></a> <a href="../../static/img/web-subscribe.png"><img src="../../static/img/web-subscribe.png"/></a> </div> To keep receiving desktop notifications from ntfy, you need to keep the website open. What I do, and what I highly recommend, is to pin the tab so that it's always open, but sort of out of the way: <figure markdown> ![pinned](../static/img/web-pin.png){ width=500 } <figcaption>Pin web app to move it out of the way</figcaption> </figure>