Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by fapjacks 4352 days ago
>Push notifications in mobile apps

There's no way this could get annoying. Push notifications are great for things like SMS, voicemail, email, and emergency management alerts (such as amber alerts, or if there is a fire nearby), but coupled with anything resembling advertising -- even if the user claims they want to see it -- I would wager heavily that it will cause a service to hemorrhage users. Is this an opt-in only "feature"?

1 comments

Agree. The idea is to have all notifications configurable, only "silent" notification which is visibile when you connect to website or app, email notification on/off, mobile app notification on/off - for example if you're preparing for your new skying season and want to buy some new equipment, maybe its not so annoying to get push notifications from www.dickssportinggoods.com about great sale of winter goods?