Hi guys, out of curiosity when you used reddit sync did you use the notifications feature?
If so did you use push notifications from the official reddit app or polled notifications (ie sync checkes every 60min, 2hrs, etc)?
Lastly hypothetically if sync for lemmy had notifications features similar to sync for reddit would you use star/continue to use instant push notifications/polling based push notifications?
Curious on your thoughts.
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Nah, I hate notifications from social media sites like Reddit and such. So I always had those disabled. On my phone, I only need to know when people call or text me, not when someone replies to a comment I made on Reddit.
Same here … I have Android and whenever I see a new notification from anything, I jump into settings to see which app was involved and disable their notifications.
I even turn off the sound and ignore most of my calls and texts … I don’t like talking or texting people I know in real life anymore (unless I have to). I only talk, text or chat with people on my terms when I want to.
I already spend too much time on my phone, I don’t need it to constantly alert me to look at it again.
Not the biggest deal-breaker, so polled is good enough for me since it is a low priority channel for me anyways.
I kinda wonder if sync for lemmy can use a sort of hybrid aproach. For instance when sync for lemmy is in the forground it uses websockets with the lemmy instance to get push notifications. However once the app is exited (or after a predetermined perioed of time) sync could revert back to polled notifications. This is kinda similar to how lemmy web sends push notificaitons when opened as a tab but doesn’t when closed.
I feel like that’s basically how sync was working for me. I can’t remember my exact notification settings but probably used polling. But if I was using the app and would open a thread or refresh or something I would get a notification that I had received a message. Other than that I generally just used the emails reddit would send me about a comment reply or something. They annoyed me for the most part but I never took the time to turn them off. 😂
I never stopped to consider what type of notifications Sync used, but ability to receive notifications are a priority for me. I participate actively in discussions and don’t like to leave people hanging if they have interesting responses/questions/etc to something I posted. So knowing when someone has replied to any of my posts is very helpful in that regard, versus when I occasionally remember to check my inbox probably days later after the discussion has already ended.
