I love Voyager, it has all the things I need, except for push notifications. Is that a planned feature in the near future?

  • aeharding@lemmy.worldM
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    6 months ago

    It’s planned via https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2631 once lemmy supports.

    Without that, there’s two ways to do this with major drawbacks:

    • Background tasks (android supported-ish with iOS support only with app open): Apps like Thunder are doing partial implementations by essentially polling the lemmy server in the background. I don’t think this is very neighborly because it puts a strain on Lemmy instances with the polling per account every 15 mins. It also consumes more battery. And is not consistent depending on Android device manufacturer.
    • Storing JWTs on a server: Some apps do this, but this is a nonstarter for me due to security/liability reasons

    So IDK. Right now I feel pressure to do this because other apps support but the ways they are accomplishing this are pretty questionable.