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Push Notifications? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I love Voyager, it has all the things I need, except for push notifications. Is that a planned feature in the near future?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's planned via https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631 once lemmy supports.

Without that, there's two ways to do this with major drawbacks:

Background tasks (android supported-ish with iOS support only with app open): Apps like Thunder are doing partial implementations by essentially polling the lemmy server in the background. I don't think this is very neighborly because it puts a strain on Lemmy instances with the polling per account every 15 mins. It also consumes more battery. And is not consistent depending on Android device manufacturer.
Storing JWTs on a server: Some apps do this, but this is a nonstarter for me due to security/liability reasons

So IDK. Right now I feel pressure to do this because other apps support but the ways they are accomplishing this are pretty questionable.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Right now I feel pressure to do this because other apps support but the ways they are accomplishing this are pretty questionable.

Don't take too much pressure because of this. Most of us are happy with the app as it currently is and will happily wait for proper push notifications to be supported by lemmy.