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I’ve been going from app to app, some clients have a push notification setting but I’m still not getting anything when I’m outside of the app. What’s causing this? And are there apps where push notifications are working currently?

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy as a protocol does not currently support push notifications. The best an app could do is to stay running and constantly check for new messages, but that is far from an ideal workaround.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

Ah, noted. Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I know Thunder on Android has push notifications because it checks once every 15 minutes for anything new. But I do not know about iOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Checking at a regular interval is "pull" (not push) though. Push means the client keeps a low-bandwidth connection to the server open so the server can notify the client as soon as something has happened.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Point taken, LOL. But at least you get notifications. At least on Android. As I said, I have no idea whether it works on iOS or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yep. I'm not sure if OP was looking for technically-pull clients specifically, though I have to imagine conventional notifications are a basic feature even on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Ahh, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Iβ€˜m getting noticed by mail and my mail client has push notifications.