This is such an important feature to me, as a person who really likes to engage in back and forth comment conversations, timely responses are immensely helpful, and only feasible with notifications.
I’m aware there are on going costs, personally I’m happy to pay a couple of bucks a month for push notifications alone. More if other features are also included.
I would happily pay for premium features including notifications.
I was just curious how Lemmios was the first app that offered realtime notifications since basically day 1, that’s why I linked it.
That took a little longer than expected, but I finally got push notifications working. They can be enabled on a per-account basis.
As of right now, I’m planning to support basic notifications as a free feature in Arctic, and I may just bundle more advanced notifications in a premium package such as community watchers, moderator notifications, and scheduled posts.
I still have a little work to do on this update, but I should be able to release this in the next couple of days.
Great to hear, I’m still working out the payment model for this. I don’t want to paywall core features so I’m still considering what features to bundle for premium.
The Lemmios dev was definitely quick to add notifications. I don’t have much free time to work on Arctic lately, so I’ve been focusing on core functions mainly. I did however have the last 2 days to work on this, and I managed to get the notification server API written, now I just need setup the domain, and deploy it. So we should have notifications in the next release assuming all goes well.
I also added an Open in Arctic safari extension, so you can open Lemmy links directly from safari.