Would email notifications with a daily digest (and settings to be informed of certain events individually and immediately) be sufficient for a lot of these, or is there something specific about the push-notifications from the app that would help with this?
Seems like app notifications could be much more user-friendly. I wouldn’t need to open up the email, then press again to open up the browser, then close the browser tab, delete the email. Also, the app notification can directly show me the most important information so I can decide whether or not look further, whereas I’ll probably have to open the email to see that. Also with emails you’d have to deal with or worry about spam filters, rate limiters, delivery problems, etc.
For notifications, I actually think just making LW a full progressive web app and using the notifications API of mobile browsers seems like the best choice to me, but not confident.
I’m not familiar with PWA, but if it works it may be a good alternative to native apps.
Agree that they have advantages. I personally much prefer email notifications, because it allows me to centralize all my notification systems, and because I generally prefer to process things in batches, but I can see the case for app notifications.
I will look into this more. Will let you know what I find.
Seems like app notifications could be much more user-friendly. I wouldn’t need to open up the email, then press again to open up the browser, then close the browser tab, delete the email. Also, the app notification can directly show me the most important information so I can decide whether or not look further, whereas I’ll probably have to open the email to see that. Also with emails you’d have to deal with or worry about spam filters, rate limiters, delivery problems, etc.
I’m not familiar with PWA, but if it works it may be a good alternative to native apps.
Agree that they have advantages. I personally much prefer email notifications, because it allows me to centralize all my notification systems, and because I generally prefer to process things in batches, but I can see the case for app notifications.
I will look into this more. Will let you know what I find.