Loomio
Wed 5 Feb 2014 4:12PM

Diaspora dynamic notifications and messages

ACP Andrei Cristian Petcu Public Seen by 68

Give Diaspora* the ability to push notifications and messages from server to clients so we can see notifications and messages without refreshing the page. All the other social networks are doing it. It can be done with websockets and with a ajax fallback for old browsers.

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Ryuno-Ki Fri 7 Feb 2014 10:09PM

Try this GreaseMonkey Script meanwhile:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/162873

Works fine; except the notification bar at top.

Please, ask your podmin before changing the interval in the script (traffic for the server, you know ;-)).

ACP

Andrei Cristian Petcu Mon 10 Feb 2014 8:17AM

Jonne Haß what where the technical issues that made you remove the feature? Is there a discussion/issue on github or any issue tracker?

ACP

Andrei Cristian Petcu Mon 10 Feb 2014 8:20AM

Also was it implremented with websockets or with Ajax? I immamgine a Ajax implementation will fill the server with requests while a websockets one will just send notifications when they are needed.

JH

Jonne Haß Mon 10 Feb 2014 11:23AM

It was based on Websockets. It got removed back when the decision process was in-transparent (and I wasn't involved with it). Iirc the reasoning was something along the lines of too much load on the server, too much code complexity and thus instability in it, back then bad browser support and probably also easier migration for JD to Heroku.