dgriffith comments on This app to meet new people relentlessly sends you a "redeem your free ticket" notification, sometimes 10 in an hour . With no way to disable this type of notification in-app

[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

And newer versions of Android have notification categories for each app.

So if the developer does their homework I can turn off particular notification types and let others through, and that way you can -gasp!- actually have a messaging app that only notifies you of actual messages, instead of constantly begging for your attention for a bunch of superfluous crap.

A long list of stuff that I don't care about in Messenger

And if I go to the notification settings for that app and it doesn't have a category I can easily drop, it either gets completely silenced, or it gets uninstalled.

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[–] tja@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

So if the developer does their homework I can turn off particular notification types and let others through

Experience shows that most apps, especially the ones where you would want to disable a subset of their notifications, do not support that.
So in most cases I will just disable them completely and if I feel generous I will remind them about this feature via a play store review.

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[–] dgriffith@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I think it's becoming a play store requirement for apps to use various "notification channels" or whatever it's called, so hopefully the all or nothing behaviour will disappear in time.

Orrrr as you say apps get totally silenced / uninstalled, I don't have the patience for that kind of stuff anymore.

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