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This is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is har
by sinak 12y ago
This is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is highly centralized, which is really bad for self-hosted/open source software. But DMs are totally doable.
- sibartlett 12y agoPrivate/direct messaging is the next big feature we will be adding :)
- scott_karana 12y ago> The latter is hard to do: push is highly centralized, which is really bad for self-hosted/open source software Why is this the case? I would have thought it's the same in principle whether it's a central Slack server, or a central FooMumble server running Let's Chat. (Difficulty of implementation might be high, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about?)
- thedufer 12y agoThere are basically two options and they both suck. Either publish one app and distribute the push notification cert (terrible idea) or each hosted site needs it's own cert and thus an Apple account/published app (pain in the ass).
- scott_karana 12y agoGotcha, I didn't realize that APNS was involved here. :)
- driverdan 12y agoPush is fairly easy to do. There are JS libs for both Google and Apple push services. The hardest part is getting all of your Apple certs setup correctly. Then you just create a simple Cordova app to register devices.