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With today's update I dare say Voyager is now better than Apollo was (i.ibb.co)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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User tags are going to be so useful. Keep up the good work, @[email protected]!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

You don’t need to have the app running in the background. Notifications can be pushed from the cloud.

Problem is, that costs money to host and run that job to check for notifications. This is why a lot of small developers end up burying notifications behind a paywall.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 51 minutes ago

So then „bury“ it behind a paywall, why is that bad? A server costs money so let the people who want to use that server pay their part. I see no problem with that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I mean yeah, but hosting and running a voyager server that stores our login credentials would be a more complicated and difficult option for what gain? The simplest solution would probably be just waking up the app every so often to check, I think eternity does that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Speaking for iOS, I don’t believe this is possible. iOS has rules around what background processes can and can’t run on-device.

For notifications coming from the internet, in order to preserve battery life, Apple wants cloud APNs to wake up terminated apps to deliver notifications.

I know android does some similar battery preservation stuff around notifications, but I’m a little less familiar with that.