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Any plans to add reply notifications? Forever ago I used a chrome extension that had both karma and reply tracking and I quite enjoyed it. I've written code to
by joshstrange 7y ago
Any plans to add reply notifications? Forever ago I used a chrome extension that had both karma and reply tracking and I quite enjoyed it. I've written code to do this personally and I also use HNReplies to get them in my email but It'd be nice to get at least reply notifications in the app. That said, especially since I've done it before, I know this is no small ask and adding push notifications to an app can greatly increase the complexity.
- busymom0 7y agoI don't think notifications would be possible easily without me having a backend server making tons of requests every second polling for new comments on a per user basis. With that said, maybe I am uneducated because I had never heard of HNReplies. I am going to look into it now and see how they handle this problem!
- joshstrange 7y agoSorry, I missed this reply (b/c I didn't check my email lol). Yes it would require backend servers and polling of the HN API. I'm not sure if HNReplies uses the Firebase API or the Algolia API (or just basic scraping).