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I was an early cheerleader of Wire but it almost sunk my "tech goodwill" among friends because its reliability of notifications on mobile was poor for years. I

• yellow_lead 5y ago
  They must not be using FCM. It's a shame that Google and Apple essentially mandate FCM / APNS to have reliable notifications. Though, I understand the need for battery saving, etc.
  • southerntofu 5y ago
    Raw Android does not mandate centralized notifications. That's additional "battery optimization" settings deployed by Android vendors, but AOSP/Lineage/e certainly work fine with decentralized notifications. iOS, on the other hand...
    • catdog 5y ago
      Yep it works fine on more or less "vanilla" android but still makes it inconvenient to get there like having to flip the right "battery optimization" toggle. How to do it changes with every 2nd release of course.
      • southerntofu 5y ago
        Wait, it's now hidden behind a "battery optimization" flag on *vanilla Android*?
        • yellow_lead 5y ago
          Yes I think so, because the way these apps typically do notifications is with an Android service that polls or keeps a long running socket. If you don't turn off battery optimization specifically for that app then the OS will kill your service.
• aiilns 5y ago
  Element on android (the most well known app implementing the matrix.org protocol) has problems with notifications as well. Both on android phones with google services & on google-free android with battery optimizations and such disabled. I suspect notifications are a more difficult matter than it appears to be.
  • emptysongglass 5y ago
    I am an Element user and haven't noticed this on an Xperia 1 ii.