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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by twism on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:09PM (#35343324)
Not all web apps spam notifications. I think we are all thinking of notifications in the context of what typical websites typically do but this is all dependent on what the web app/developer does (eg. if HN had a push notifications, wouldn't it be nice to know when you receive a reply to your comment? ... plus a "Notifications Settings" page to set what type of notifications HN can send, notifications about a certain topic or domain on the front page, etc?)

Uber Eats and Drizzly spam my notifications (I know Android has very detailed/overly complex IMO way of managing app notification channels) but because they are native apps we don't complain.

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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by jmull on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:22PM (#35343552)
> Not all web apps spam notifications

Yes. I’ll bet there are many well-behaved web apps, with well-considered notifications and concise and simple options so that users get everything they want and little they don’t.

They are downed out by the firehose too.

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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by twism on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:32PM (#35343737)
firehose? as in other websites the user has allowed notifications for that are "bad" actors?
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by JohnFen on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:34PM (#35343776)
> if HN had a push notifications, wouldn't it be nice to know when you receive a reply to your comment?

Not via a push notification, no.

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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by twism on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:08PM (#35344358)
via what then?
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by JohnFen on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:52PM (#35345097)
Email would be my preference. That way, I can have it be autosorted and let my email client do any special processing I want, including notifications if that's desirable.
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by Terretta on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @01:55PM (#35345134)
To be fair, focus mode now semi-effectively "autosorts" with preferred handling per cell in a matrix of source x modality.
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by JohnFen on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:16PM (#35345455)
I had to search for "focus mode" to learn what you were referring to, so forgive me if my understanding is incorrect. Isn't that a Win 11 thing? It looks like a kind of do-not-disturb mode?

How does that intersect with browser push notifications? Another advantage of email notifications is that the email notifications won't go away if I don't pay attention to them for a long while.

In any case, I don't use Windows except at work, where this wouldn't be an issue anyway.

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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by warner25 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:08PM (#35345342)
There are very few websites that I love and might trust to not abuse notifications, and HN is probably one of them. Still, I only want an inbox or page showing unread messages that I can check at my own initiative rather than something that will pop-up or otherwise try to get my attention when I'm clearly choosing to look at or do something else. Only my wife and maybe my boss should be able to do that.
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by brycedriesenga on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:16PM (#35343448)
I love how detailed the notification management on Android can be
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by twism on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @12:14PM (#35343405)
HNNotify.io (YC S23) anyone?
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Re:Push notifications are now supported cross-browser by tomjen3 on Tuesday March 28, 2023 @02:50PM (#35345996)
I would NOT want to get a notification if somebody replied to my comment on HN. I want a small, unoptrusive icon on HN that shows the exact number of replies that I haven't read and that I can click on when I have time.

There is far too much already that bings, bangs, jumps and try to get my attention.

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