Lack of interest Suppress or Delay Push Notifications During Sleep Time

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Hello @Mike, @Chris D & @Kier
Some of our members asked if would be possible to setup a time period when the Push Notifications alerts are suppressed (not sent). This would be ideally an option in the member's account preferences because it could take into account member time zone.
Basically Xenforo should check this setting before sending the notifications, if a notification happens outside the "Suppress Notification" time then it's sent in real-time as it happens now. But if it's in the "Suppress Notification" time it should not be sent, instead after this time passes it should send just one alert - "You have X alerts at site name".
 
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I had a similar question, I asked if audio could be turned off by default. I tried push on XF and since forums are global my phone chimed all night making me turn them off. I could have disabled audio but I feel most members will have the same reaction and turn them off and not hunt down the browser setting. The answer was no, that is not in their control. Maybe your suggestion is. Or something.

My desktop does not chime tho. Why just phones by default?
 
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beerForo said:
I had a similar question, I asked if audio could be turned off by default. I tried push on XF and since forums are global my phone chimed all night making me turn them off. I could have disabled audio but I feel most members will have the same reaction and turn them off and not hunt down the browser setting. The answer was no, that is not in their control. Maybe your suggestion is. Or something.

My desktop does not chime tho. Why just phones?
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Sounds for alerts are individual settings on the device at receiving end of the push alerts. The sounds don't originate at the source.

If you don't want the sounds it's in your phone's settings.

Desktops don't get push alerts at all, they're not compatible. There's a setting in xf 2.1 though to enable a chime on desktops for the xf alerts. Xf alerts being, other than push.
 
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I understand, Android mobile has the "disallow sound" option, I was just hoping there was some way to use API to set that as default upon turning them on. Chrome desktop seems to use no sound by default.
 
beerForo said:
I understand, Android mobile has the "disallow sound" option, I was just hoping there was some way to use API to set that as default upon turning them on. Chrome desktop seems to use no sound by default.
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You want a xf powered forum to have access to your phone's settings, sounds like.

Man... What I do anytime I don't want push alerts is go in my preferences and turn off push. I then turn it back on when I want the alerts back. If oh shoot I forget to do that... It's on me. There's personal responsibility involved in it.
 
I was already told it was not possible, I made my post to voice the same frustration and noted maybe his suggestion was possible.
 
Push sends information. Once the sending is done, everything that happens after that is out of control of the sender. Just like email.

The OP's asked option certainly does seem doable however.
 
Manster54 said:
The OP's asked option certainly does seem doable however.
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That would be nice. A sort of "Do not disturb" configuration. However getting people to find and use settings like this is like pulling teeth. I still think most will knee-jerk react and turn them off.
 
beerForo said:
That would be nice. A sort of "Do not disturb" configuration. However getting people to find and use settings like this is like pulling teeth. I still think most will knee-jerk react and turn them off.
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If they can find turning them off in preferences, they can find the proposed "sleep" setting too.
 
Manster54 said:
Push sends information. Once the sending is done, everything that happens after that is out of control of the sender. Just like email.

The OP's asked option certainly does seem doable however.
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But you can delay the push, send them to a queue, then process the queue in available time.

However, it will require a significant amount of work. Even Facebook does not have this feature.
 
Banxix said:
But you can delay the push, send them to a queue, then process the queue in available time.

However, it will require a significant amount of work. Even Facebook does not have this feature.
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Yeah it would be slick, no doubt. Being probably the first platform to feature that, might be some incentive too. Plus when it comes out of sleep it would be only sending one push, the single notification that you have alerts here here and here... if I understand the OP correctly.
 
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