i was looking for this comment. raises question how managements work at big tech. why didn't they release in first hand along with androud and ios apps, only long-standing apps are the one that started before generative ai stepped. whats the vision here?

I wonder whats the difference between permisions do giant apps like whatsapp, instagram have for notification service.

cause they seem like perfectly integrated themselves into this, while ntfy has to pose itself as battery consuming application

I'm planning to using ntfy for notifications like bitwarden vault backups, if apps are updated.

Probably not permissions so much as proper implementation of push messaging for mobile. Apple created a push message infrastructure and Google followed that allows their messaging infrastructure already running on the phone to multiplex messages for multiple apps without needing additional power for listening.

I use Pushover for email push notifications- it doesn’t have a subscription and using the proper APIs.

FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging), and Apple's own APN (Apple Push Notifications) work as a single OS level service, and they are multiplexed so that many different apps can route through them with a single connection, even waking your phone/watch from sleep. There are open/de-Googled alternatives like UnifiedPush, but they're not integrated at the OS layer (they run as a background worker thread), and can't match the battery efficiency or sleep-wake capabilities of those built into the OS/low-level networking layer.

What do you mean by "battery consuming application"? At least the PWA of ntfy can use Web Push, which uses your browser's existing push notification service and should not consume any additional battery.

If you use ntfy.sh and don't use instant delivery, ntfy uses Google's FCM for delivery, which is what everyone else does. It doesn't require a foreground service and has no battery impact.

ntfy offers you additional options with instant delivery or the selfhostable server. That requires a server connection and does impact battery a little. On my phone it doesn't show up in the list it's so low, but others have reported more consumption

I've been using ntfy for ages. Doesn't chew my battery too much. Chrome, mail and mattermost are my top. Ntfy gets less than 30 notifications per day.

Better to adopt with apps like redreader, customisable and away from ads and unusable mobile web ui.

pretty sure that's next.

That's very neat ! words are simple but challanging

Great Read ! Thank you for such detailed introduction to UPI, I'm lookingfor such articles for mastercard or VISA

Why a broken Link has 5 karma points?

Personally I'm not happy that they are touching and revamping most basic tool of the os. A Notepad, which is a innocent little thing in itself.

Notepad should be last thing they should be fiddling with.

I am sad that we have to install 3rd parties for basics now.

Article is published in January.

I would assume small context window is blessing in disguise.

You worded it very good.

That looks very neat.I was searching for a local notepad, went to length of installing a extension.

But this. Just wow. Thank you.

Thank you! I’ll keep improving it.