Notifications / alerts

[raucao]

Tracking issue for notifications. Let's collect requirements here and update overall status.

• Notifications need to be configurable per channel (with keywords per channel, user mentions on by default)
• Have both audio and desktop notifications, but be able to separately turn them on and off
• Push notifications where possible (via ServiceWorker, and in packaged apps later)

[raucao]

Library for cross-browser desktop Web notifications: https://nickersoft.github.io/push.js/

[raucao]

I've seen that title changes already use notifications, but actually shouldn't when just (re-)connecting to channels/servers.

[raucao]

I've seen that title changes already use notifications, but actually shouldn't when just (re-)connecting to channels/servers.

Fixed this one last week btw.

[raucao]

Just putting this here as a note: https://github.com/web-push-libs/web-push

[raucao]

I have finished everything we need for push notifications: https://www.npmjs.com/package/hubot-web-push-notifications

We can just add that to botka, and then subscribe via requests to any botka/kosmos bots. We should probably discuss bot detection at some point soon.

[raucao]

Basic push notifications are now working on https://hyperchannel.kosmos.org for Freenode (via botka). When your username is not online (i.e. visible in the channel list for botka), then it will send out a notification containing the chat line (encrypted of course), from which one can open Hyperchannel.

We don't have normal notifications anymore, which is definitely missing. We removed those at some point, because they didn't account for visibility and such iirc.