Hi,

I recently switched to lemmy from reddit. I tried some of the mobile apps, and for now decided to use Boost.

While testing i figured out, that non of the apps i tried out are able to send push notifications while the apps aren’t running. I have to open the app to recieve the notifications about e.g. new replies to my posts.

I am just curious: Is this a limitation of the lemmy software? Is this something that could be toggled by the instance hosts?

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    I remember Christian talking about this with Apollo for Reddit and he said this was why he charged for the app, because the push notifications cost him money and it sounded like it was based on the quantity of the notifications, not a base rate either, which could get expensive.

    Since nearly all of these apps are free, that may be part of the reason in keeping the cost at what it is of development.

    • moseschrute
      2·
      25 days ago

      I manage a Lemmy client. I’m eventually going to try and get local notifications working. Basically instead of paying for any push notification servers, the app will locally poll the API every X minutes to check for unread messages. The hard part is, iOS (I’m guessing Android too) has strict constraints on background processes. I forget the exact time, but it’s something like 30 seconds. So iOS may say, “you have 30 seconds to check the API for unread notifications, and if you take any longer, I’ll kill the process”. And since my app is multi account, the problem will get more difficult for every account you login to. For that reason, I’ve been procrastinating.

  • gedaliyahM
    1·
    20 days ago

    Eternity has notifications, but it hasn’t been updated in a while. I’m not sure if it’s active.