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Does anyone find notifications to actually be useful? I don't think I have them enabled for any site.

by tedivm 6y ago

ars 6y ago
I use them for email and chat websites. I've never turned them on for news types sites though.
striking 6y ago
The lack of them in MobileSafari discourages any legitimate developers from building on them, imho.
dantillberg 6y ago
I appreciate notifications for web-based email and calendar applications.
epx 6y ago
It is useful, but in 1 every 300 sites I visit, so the SNR is not good indeed.
saagarjha 6y ago
I have them on for chat apps that I run in the browser because their native client is Electron-based.
Xylakant 6y ago
I have them enabled for a few chat and email interfaces that I use in the browser only.
1123581321 6y ago
I like them for Trello, which is our project communication system at work. Trello has native apps, but they’re in poor condition. Standard browser sessions with notifications seem to work better.
MatthewMcDonald 6y ago
I use them for my GitLab pipelines
iaml 6y ago
Gitlab pipeline succeeded notification is the only one I find helpful.
tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago
Yes, in very, very narrow cases: - Gmail - Calendar - Online support chats where I get a notification when an agent becomes available/responds so I don't forget about the tab - A custom tool I wrote for myself (web notifications are the easiest way to get push notifications onto your phone without having to go through the overhead of full app development) I bet there are some people who genuinely like the idea of a news site pushing them the latest news. I doubt they outweigh the number who accidentally enable those notifications and then can't turn them off, but I haven't seen user studies and I could be wrong; average users often have habits that seem weird to me. I have, however, also seen what really abusive notifications can do: A friend enabled notifications from a shady site or the ads served on the shady site (because users don't understand dialogs and end up clicking a random button, so ask them often enough and one of the clicks will land on "yes"), and now their Chromebook was telling them that they have a virus and need to {install a malicious extension,give the scammer money,etc.}. Since then, disabling notifications is on my mental "browser hardening for when I set up a browser for inexperienced users" checklist. I'd wholeheartedly support blocking the notification dialog for all sites, limiting notifications to a barely-noticeable icon that the user needs to actively click. Much harder to convince a user to take an action than to convince a user to click a random button to get rid of a dialog that's getting in their face. Also, an easy browser-controlled way to unsubscribe from notifications, and enforcement based on the rates of a) people clicking "no" in the permission dialog, b) unsubscribe rates. If the metrics show that your users aren't happy with your notifications, no more notifications for you.
geofft 6y ago
I use the Slack website instead of the native app because I don't really see a need for having more native apps that are just glorified website wrappers, and they're useful there.

Does anyone find notifications to actually be useful? I don't think I have them enabled for any site.

by tedivm 6y ago

Does anyone find notifications to actually be useful? I don't think I have them enabled for any site.

ars 6y ago

I use them for email and chat websites. I've never turned them on for news types sites though.

striking 6y ago

The lack of them in MobileSafari discourages any legitimate developers from building on them, imho.

dantillberg 6y ago

I appreciate notifications for web-based email and calendar applications.

epx 6y ago

It is useful, but in 1 every 300 sites I visit, so the SNR is not good indeed.

saagarjha 6y ago

I have them on for chat apps that I run in the browser because their native client is Electron-based.

Xylakant 6y ago

I have them enabled for a few chat and email interfaces that I use in the browser only.

1123581321 6y ago

I like them for Trello, which is our project communication system at work. Trello has native apps, but they’re in poor condition. Standard browser sessions with notifications seem to work better.

MatthewMcDonald 6y ago

I use them for my GitLab pipelines

iaml 6y ago

Gitlab pipeline succeeded notification is the only one I find helpful.

tgsovlerkhgsel 6y ago

Yes, in very, very narrow cases: - Gmail - Calendar - Online support chats where I get a notification when an agent becomes available/responds so I don't forget about the tab - A custom tool I wrote for myself (web notifications are the easiest way to get push notifications onto your phone without having to go through the overhead of full app development) I bet there are some people who genuinely like the idea of a news site pushing them the latest news. I doubt they outweigh the number who accidentally enable those notifications and then can't turn them off, but I haven't seen user studies and I could be wrong; average users often have habits that seem weird to me. I have, however, also seen what really abusive notifications can do: A friend enabled notifications from a shady site or the ads served on the shady site (because users don't understand dialogs and end up clicking a random button, so ask them often enough and one of the clicks will land on "yes"), and now their Chromebook was telling them that they have a virus and need to {install a malicious extension,give the scammer money,etc.}. Since then, disabling notifications is on my mental "browser hardening for when I set up a browser for inexperienced users" checklist. I'd wholeheartedly support blocking the notification dialog for all sites, limiting notifications to a barely-noticeable icon that the user needs to actively click. Much harder to convince a user to take an action than to convince a user to click a random button to get rid of a dialog that's getting in their face. Also, an easy browser-controlled way to unsubscribe from notifications, and enforcement based on the rates of a) people clicking "no" in the permission dialog, b) unsubscribe rates. If the metrics show that your users aren't happy with your notifications, no more notifications for you.

geofft 6y ago

I use the Slack website instead of the native app because I don't really see a need for having more native apps that are just glorified website wrappers, and they're useful there.