Hi guys, out of curiosity when you used reddit sync did you use the notifications feature?
If so did you use push notifications from the official reddit app or polled notifications (ie sync checkes every 60min, 2hrs, etc)?
Lastly hypothetically if sync for lemmy had notifications features similar to sync for reddit would you use star/continue to use instant push notifications/polling based push notifications?
Curious on your thoughts.
Nah, I hate notifications from social media sites like Reddit and such. So I always had those disabled. On my phone, I only need to know when people call or text me, not when someone replies to a comment I made on Reddit.
Same here … I have Android and whenever I see a new notification from anything, I jump into settings to see which app was involved and disable their notifications.
I even turn off the sound and ignore most of my calls and texts … I don’t like talking or texting people I know in real life anymore (unless I have to). I only talk, text or chat with people on my terms when I want to.
I already spend too much time on my phone, I don’t need it to constantly alert me to look at it again.
I used push notifications for messages, and let Sync get it for me so I didn’t install the steaming pile of [redacted] that was the official reddit app.
I was happy even with the necessary delay that induced - I was mainly dealing with either comment replies or notifications from followed authors on /r/hfy
Ah in the past I used push from the official reddit app with sync (no delay).
In the case of Lemmy I have use monito rss with Lemmy inbox rss (poll rate every 10 min).
I did but only for replies and mentions.
I never stopped to consider what type of notifications Sync used, but ability to receive notifications are a priority for me. I participate actively in discussions and don’t like to leave people hanging if they have interesting responses/questions/etc to something I posted. So knowing when someone has replied to any of my posts is very helpful in that regard, versus when I occasionally remember to check my inbox probably days later after the discussion has already ended.
I only used the polled notifications, refused to install the official crap
