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Still need an iOS app for push notifications.
by smoser 7y ago
Still need an iOS app for push notifications.
- saagarjha 7y agoI'd think that emails can serve that purpose quite well, but now that there's a native app I'll see if it's any better.
- neilsimp1 7y agoPWAs can do push notifications though. And then it's one codebase and not one for Android, one for iOS.
- aecorredor 7y agoDo PWA push notifications already work on iOS browsers?
- wilg 7y agoNo
- thosakwe 7y agoNope, and it wasn't on the list of WebKit goals that was on the front page this week.
- toxik 7y agoAnd thank god for that. Such a bad idea imo. I only get those from annoying sites, like a dark pattern. Ugh.
- baroffoos 7y agoBrowsers ask permission first. Also I don't see how having to install an app is any better other than being better for devs to track you.
- ceejayoz 7y agoI might install one app per hundred sites that annoyingly prompt for notification permissions, though.
- saurik 7y agoAnd I install one app per hundred sites that annoyingly prompt me to install their app so they can give me push notifications (or, worse, a working website because they didn't bother even trying to build their product as a website anymore because of the lack of push notifications; it is ridiculous). So? The site is going to prompt me either way. This argument makes no sense: of course I would rather get promoted for the one feature I don't want to give them instead of an attempt to upsell me on an entirely different experience after being served crippled content... that is a total no brainer.
- driverdan 7y agoWhy would you want Github push notifications? Nothing on Github is urgent enough to disrupt your life like that.
- nbar1 7y agoI would quite like to know when a PR is in movement that I'm involved in.
- mdtusz 7y agoEmail notifications.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoI'd rather get an app notification than an email notification for pretty much everything I can think of. I'd be surprised if I wasn't in the vast majority on this.
- tenryuu 7y agoWell, if I can consolidate all my notifications to email, then only one application on my phone needs to have a constant/reoccurring connection to a server for push notifications. Instead of fifteen of the things all acting independently. Benefit of using an app notification always would come down to platform specific experiences. But replying to github threads over email has been something that I don't have to think twice about
- driverdan 7y agoWhy is that so important that it needs to disrupt you? Constant notifications are terrible for productivity.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoWell, you could say the same thing about most notifications including most emails, yet people presumably like notifications so much they'll get them delivered straight to their wrist watch. I don't see how Github is much different in this regard. Besides, maybe you want the notifications while on the clock.