SN release: PWA push notifications \ stacker news ~meta

3308 sats \ 63 comments \ @k00b 5 Jul 2023 meta

If you have SN installed as PWA and you have a browser that supports push notifications, you can now get your SN notifications via push even if the PWA is not in the foreground.

The option is available in the upper right when you visit your notifications page (the bell icon).

I'm not sure but you might have to reinstall the PWA and reenable push notifications. If you're using an Apple device, push notifications were only recently made available in:

iOS 16.4 or later
Safari 16 for macOS 13 or later

This release only gives notifications for replies, mentions, and sat stacking ... more types are coming.

This was a complete rewrite of the PWA aspect of SN. If you have any issues please let us know and we'll try to get them fixed.

Big shout to @ekzyis. He did all the work on this.

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413 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 5 Jul 2023

Great to see the all the bugs and wishlist items getting pounded out. Ekzyis is a machine!!!

292 sats \ 2 replies \ @felipehere 5 Jul 2023

It works for iOS! I was not even aware that iOS was supporting push notifications for PWAs. Thank you @ekzyis!

310 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

no worries :) SN may be the only app where I actually care about getting push notifications

edit: Okay, IMs too

edit: Okay, emails too lol

250 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 5 Jul 2023

It's very recent.

When I was testing this change, I had an old iOS version and it wasn't available but after searching around we realized it was.

143 sats \ 0 replies \ @TonyGiorgio 5 Jul 2023

Very nice! Love this.

250 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

btw, SN is also a share target now.

If you click on "share" on any website or app, you should be able to select the SN app. It will open the form to post a link or discussion depending on the data the source app sends us.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cointastical 5 Jul 2023

🔥

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 5 Jul 2023

I forgot about that

110 sats \ 2 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

No worries, was just a small change. I did it because it didn't require much effort but it's a nice integration imo. It's also a good demonstration of what PWAs are capable of.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @all_SN 6 Jul 2023

It is a nice integration indeed! Although you must be using Android to do so correct? I tried to share a webpage from Safari on iOS and SN doesn’t show up as a target option.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 6 Jul 2023

Yes, there is unfortunately not much support available yet:

-- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/share_target#browser_compatibility

226 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

Oh, and for push notifications on Brave, you need to enable the Google push service in Settings > Privacy and Security:

226 sats \ 4 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

Works for me without reinstalling.

Just had to check the checkbox on the notifications page :)

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 5 Jul 2023

I just noticed it takes me straight to the reply. It should probably work like the notifications page and scroll me to the reply on the root item

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

It also doesn't close the notification after you press on it. A line of code is missing after opening the app.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 5 Jul 2023

I wonder if the right ux is just going straight to notifications for all of them. I have notifications off for most apps. How does twitter’s work?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

Ah yes, I agree

100 sats \ 25 replies \ @all_SN 5 Jul 2023

This is very cool! Thank you for getting me interested in setting up SN as my first PWA in iOS.

Writing this to test notifications appearing on PWA icon when I receive a reply. Although I don’t think they will because of the following issue: Can’t get the PWA to show that I’m logged into my account. In Safari tab where I set up the PWA I’m logged in, but when in the PWA I’m not logged it. Can’t reply from within the PWA.

0 sats \ 24 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

What auth method are you using to log in? Lightning should work

And did you try to go through the login flow in the PWA, too? On Android, I think browser and PWA have the same session but maybe that's not the case on iOS

0 sats \ 23 replies \ @all_SN 5 Jul 2023

Using email right now. Just removed lightning login a few hours ago actually.

Tried the login flow and opened the link in email, but just brings me to Safari tab. Not a huge deal really since I can just use Safari for replying/posting and PWA for browsing and reading. But still, is it an issue that could be fixed?

Entirely separate session it seems.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 5 Jul 2023

This is a problem on iOS. We haven't found a solution yet.

ek we talked about this a month or two ago.

0 sats \ 21 replies \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

Email login in a Safari PWA unfortunately doesn't work since Safari doesn't allow to open PWAs, a feature which is called "link capturing" [0]

[0] https://firt.dev/notes/pwa-ios/

0 sats \ 20 replies \ @all_SN 5 Jul 2023

Interesting… Too bad. Thanks still though!

10 sats \ 19 replies \ @k00b OP 5 Jul 2023

In the meantime, you can add another login method. All other login methods work on iOS.

0 sats \ 18 replies \ @all_SN 6 Jul 2023

Wait you can have multiple login methods simultaneously? If so that’s pretty awesome for ensuring you never get locked out of your account!

10 sats \ 17 replies \ @ek 6 Jul 2023

yes you can, lol

Is that why you removed your lightning login?

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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo 5 Jul 2023

Have you guys ever kicked around the idea of giving users the ability to add subs? I know SN has polled the community on this before, but I think if we're going to have subs at all we should have a much wider selection. Otherwise lots of posts end up going into META as a catch all and the system breaks down.

I can see one obvious downside being that a bunch of nonsense subs get created and those would need to be cleaned regularly. But I'd be willing to pay extra sats for the ability to create a sub during the posting process (if a logical one doesn't already exist).

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 5 Jul 2023

Yes, giving users the ability to create, maintain and earn from subs is the next big feature we have planned for SN

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatoshiNakanodo 5 Jul 2023

Most excellent!

10 sats \ 14 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 5 Jul 2023

Very cool! I’m trying it now

10 sats \ 13 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Jul 2023

FYI @ekzyis I seem to be getting double notifications when getting zapped. For example, I’ve been zapped 10 sats twice, and each time I got a “you’ve been zapped 1 sats” then “you’ve been zapped 10 sats” push notifications. Just a heads up, otherwise I’m really enjoying this experience.

0 sats \ 12 replies \ @ek 6 Jul 2023

Are you on iOS and Safari? @k00b mentioned the same but I have no Apple device to debug :(

Does that mean you get 10 individual notifications if I zap you 10 times?

10 sats \ 11 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Jul 2023

Yes I am on iOS, using the PWA installed through safari.

Yes, I got notified for each time, but the sats count in each were weird:

2,3,2,5,5,6,8,8,9,10 sats respectively ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

0 sats \ 10 replies \ @ek 6 Jul 2023

🤨 interesting

0 sats \ 9 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 6 Jul 2023

Seems like a timing issue/race condition accessing the zap amount, if I had to guess. I’m guessing something about the push notification pipeline is asynchronous, so that would make sense.

0 sats \ 8 replies \ @ek 6 Jul 2023

Yes, it's async so that could indeed explain why you see 2,3,2

But I don't get why the notifications are not grouped together using the tag property like on Android. Here, it says that Safari on iOS also supports it.

My guess would be there is some difference in the API for replacing notifications.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @ek 6 Jul 2023

Ohhh, I think I found the error.

Let me guess. If I reply three times to you, you only get a single notification which shows "you have 3 new replies", right?