Lemmy / Site Discussions @bookwormstory.social Deemo @lemmy.fmhy.ml 2y ago

[Discussion] RSS Poll rate for push notifications

Hi guys weird question, I use lemmy's inbox RSS as a sort of pseudo push notification (currently using monito RSS discord bot polling at every 10 min).

I was considering dropping the poll rate to every 1-2 min. Out of curiosity is a rss poll rate of every 1-2 min acceptable or considered excessive.

Primary reason I was considering dropping the poll rate this low is to prevent a notification lag (ie when brosing lemmy via a 3rd party app after viewing and marking a message as read 10 min latter I get a inbox notification for the same message).

Curious on your thoughts

5 comments

Can't really speak for "Standards" but the Mestionora Bot polls the jnc rss feeds once every minute as well. From a code and networking perspective a fetch of an rss feed once a minute probably doesn't even show up in any monitoring tools
- Thanks for the clarification ☺️
- I actually ended up handling push notifications slightly differently.
  
  I have a Mac Mini running 24/7 (primarily to relay iMessage to my Android)
  
  I set up email rules to detecect the email and run an apple script that runs a shortcut which checks my Lemmy rss inbox and sends a push notification via ntfy. Works like a charm
  
  Great workaround, hopefully some of the new apps coming will have notifications built in so stuff like this w9n't be neccessary anymore