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?

  • @[email protected]
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    54 days ago

    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]
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      13 days ago

      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]
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        23 days ago

        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]
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          23 days 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.

          • dawn. 🕸️OP
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            13 days ago

            Pull clients? I’m new to all of this. 😭

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              23 days ago

              The difference is just whether the client app gets notified of new messages/replies by asking the server “Is there anything new?” on a set schedule (pull), or if the server sends the notification “Here’s something new!” only when there is a new one (push).