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Yes! That is really being abused. I don't need notifications from recipe sites!
by darkstar999 9y ago
Yes! That is really being abused. I don't need notifications from recipe sites!
- koolba 9y agoI’ve yet to find a site from which I do want to receive notifications.
- TremendousJudge 9y agochat apps like discord and slack, mostly
- barkingcat 9y agoEven discord and slack I don't want browser notifications. Inside their own tab, I can deal with ui elements. There's no need nor no want to have a page alert outside of the web page itself.
- zaarn 9y agoIt can be useful when you get mentioned, like for example, a user has pinged the moderator role where a quick reaction will be necessary. Desktop notifications can significantly reduce reaction time to important events (though, assuming you do the sane and set Discord to only notify you on mentions that aren't @here or @everyone)
- ci5er 9y agoIf they need an immediate answer, they are not children and know how to use a phone (I would hope).
- crtasm 9y agoI'd imagine the majority of discord users don't share their phone numbers with the channel.
- ci5er 9y agoWell, if you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, you certainly shouldn't have the privilege of making my computer beep at me, whenever the hell you feel like it. But, that's me. Maybe you like people interrupting you. (Or maybe you like interrupting people because you think you are too important to wait en queue.)
- zaarn 9y agoThe discord server I moderate has a strict "don't ping moderators unless it's important" rule and in general anyone who just pings for shits and giggles gets quickly muted. I like it when people interrupt what I do when the server I moderate and therefore are responsible for is atm being swarmed by people spamming senseless shit into the chat or someone going of the deep end and yelling racist slurs, thank you very much.
- crtasm 9y agoI'm not suggesting your position is wrong, just that like IRC there's going to be lots of discord users who have a use for some kind of notification but would never want to give their number out.
- ci5er 9y agoFair enough.
- bluGill 9y agoStudy websites reminding me that it is time for my next study session are great for establishing the habit of doing my studies. When I was single I would have had time for 3 of them - total in my life. I think systems should automatically block all requests for notifications if you already have 3 since it is not possible for more than that to be useful. (the exact number is debatable, but 3 is close). Note that I said systems - I want firefox, chrome, ie, safari to work together across all the computers I have to keep the number down - for security reasons I understand they cannot but that would be ideal.
- cbr 9y agoI like calendar notifications, reminding me it's time to go do something
- darkhorn 9y agoWeb sites like gmail.com.
- petecox 9y agoIndeed, once upon a time folks used RSS. But we are in an age where any random website wants to send you realtime push notifications. Instead of pestering you with an overlay that takes up screen real estate, the browser should indicate what subscription options are available for a page, e.g. in the address bar next to the page info icons.