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New FeatureAugust 19, 2026
Mentor requests now reach mentors by email
Two things changed here, and the first is a fix we are not going to dress up.
Mentors were not being emailed about new mentorship requests. The request arrived, it appeared in their inbox on the site, and no email was ever sent -- so unless a mentor happened to visit the page, they did not know anyone was waiting. That is fixed. A new request now emails the mentor straight away.
Replying works too. A mentor can hit reply on that email and it goes directly to the member who asked, rather than to a no-reply address. If you would rather keep everything on Designed.org, you can answer from your inbox on the site instead. Both work, and neither is required.