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[discussion] Push notifications
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Not the biggest deal-breaker, so polled is good enough for me since it is a low priority channel for me anyways.
I kinda wonder if sync for lemmy can use a sort of hybrid aproach. For instance when sync for lemmy is in the forground it uses websockets with the lemmy instance to get push notifications. However once the app is exited (or after a predetermined perioed of time) sync could revert back to polled notifications. This is kinda similar to how lemmy web sends push notificaitons when opened as a tab but doesn't when closed.
I feel like that's basically how sync was working for me. I can't remember my exact notification settings but probably used polling. But if I was using the app and would open a thread or refresh or something I would get a notification that I had received a message. Other than that I generally just used the emails reddit would send me about a comment reply or something. They annoyed me for the most part but I never took the time to turn them off. ๐
That actually sounds like a good implementation. What are technical aspects of using websockets in the background? Or is it just due to battery?
Mainly battery limitations (could prevent doze and/or cause a wake lock) and possible increase in server load for instances (your device would have to maintained a persistent connection to lemmy instance).
That's true, so sounds like a nice compromise that also follows the official pattern in a way.