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Push Notifications? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year 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] 18 points 1 year ago (3 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] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How much would this actually increase the load of a Lemmy instance?

I'd imagine that when I'm actually browsing Lemmy, I consume so much data that the polling probably wouldn't cause even a tenth of a percent of that load. But, I don't know the technology, so I could be completely wrong with my understanding of how much it would strain the Lemmy instances. How big would the strain be in proportion to how much a Lemmy user strains the instance's server anyway?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I have no specific data. But I consider polling in the background to be abuse, especially for a free service hosted by volunteers. Once lemmy implements actual push (which is scheduled soon!) I will implement.

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