Why does the Android version of Jerboa not send me notifications whenever I get a reply?

Resol van Lemmy@lemmy.world to Jerboa@lemmy.ml – 28 points –

This is just a concern I had with the client. Back during the good ol' Reddit days, I get notified about a post/comment reply immediately when it happens. I have since left that website, and for some reason I don't know why this isn't a feature yet.

And yes I have tried Connect for Lemmy, I had major problems with that app.

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It's just hasn't been added yet. For that feature it would have to continuously poll in some interval in the a background for each account. Since the websocket API is removed.

Oh wow. Who knew how complicated that is.

It's not that complicated, it just hasn't been done. Most apps just check every few minutes if there's something to notify the user of.

Do you know if there's an address to a users messages? I'm wondering if I could use Tasker to query it and use Pushover to send notification when a notification come in.

The API endpoints? It is instance/api/v3/user/unread_count?auth=TOKEN And this instance/api/v3/private_message/list?page=1&unread_only=true&auth=TOKEN