[colesantiago]

I mean, my point with E-mail is to say it already IS a solved problem.

Many services and apps use E-Mail so there is no need to setup additional infrastructure unlike push notifications. That is the complexity.

Send an email notifying me to [e-mail] is more intuitive than setting up a push service.

Push notifications suffer from deliverability more frequently (regularly expiring tokens) than E-mail so much so, that when your device is offline and it gets back online, you only get the last notification. This is by design.

Having apps use fetch doesn't mean it's delayed, you can set it to a shorter duration but 5 minutes is the default.

But, it is over engineered as this is complexity that we do not need and would have a higher maintenance and setup than just using E-mail.

[jraph]

But for stuff like chat, 5 minutes is quite slow, push notifications are for this use case.

"hey, I just arrived at the restaurant!" You may want to know this now