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I have been waiting for this for a long time. I run a small forum and have maybe 10 core users who use it a lot. It is a recreation of a forgotten kind of old f
by grose 4y ago
I have been waiting for this for a long time. I run a small forum and have maybe 10 core users who use it a lot. It is a recreation of a forgotten kind of old forum but with some modern features. I would like users to be able to opt-in to push notifications when someone replies to their post or when they get a private message. I get Patreon support that breaks even for server fees but otherwise it is a labor of love. I am currently using a Telegram bot to send users pushes but I was always hoping Safari would finally relent so I could use the real deal. Thank you, browser vendors. I agree with most of the comments here that push messages are generally evil but this is a huge boon for small niche websites like mine that don't have the resources to make a dedicated app.
- focusedone 4y agoThis is the first legitimate excuse I've heard on the entire internet for browser push notifications.
- afavour 4y agoI’d love to receive things like “product shipped” notifications. I know I can get emails but my inbox is just a firehose, would be great to move crap like that out of it.
- c-hendricks 4y agoThere's been discussion for years over web notifications and this is the first you've heard that people like to get notified when people respond to them?
- soraminazuki 4y agoPeople have been putting up with large amounts of junk notifications for years. No one needs to wade through discussions to know how they'd feel when they're about to receive even more of them.
- distantsounds 4y agoyes, everything about this. for websites that still use forums (yes they are out there!) push notifications for quoted replies and direct messages would be extremely helpful. i believe push notifications are one of the largest reasons why forums died out in days of early smartphones - not having that instant feedback of interaction caused their own interactions to diminish as well. the need for dedicated apps on your smart phone is now almost unnecessary at this point, unless you're doing something extremely niche. what a win.
- noirscape 4y agoNo, forums died because of a two-fold hit - Tapatalk bought out exclusivity rights for mobile access on most of the bigger forums, then did jack with it and made their phone app unusable. The other death knell was Facebook getting on the phone train early, which meant that people moved to FB en-masse (which was already happening but got accelerated due to this.)