Sending helpful & engaging pushes, filtering annoying pushes, and finding the frequency sweet spot.
  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works
    37·
    11 months ago

    I know that some serious science goes into this but… Seriously, fuck your advertising. Push notifications that aren’t specifically topically opted into get blocked so fast on my phone. I have no patience for wasting my time earning someone else advertising dollars.

    • lysdexic@programming.devOPEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Push notifications that aren’t specifically topically opted into get blocked so fast on my phone. I have no patience for wasting my time earning someone else advertising dollars.

      I agree. The article also points out this fact. Quoting the article:

      Another challenge is that irrelevant or unwelcomed pushes risk having the user disable notifications, uninstall apps, or start ignoring them due to low usefulness. This results in a permanent loss of a channel for sharing timely, useful information, leading to reduced app usage. Unfortunately, as Twitter found, most recommendation engines take a myopic view, over-optimizing on immediate user responses at the cost of long-term satisfaction.

      Personally, this problem is so pervasive that I kind of developed a pavlovian reflex to notification dialogs to cancel all without thinking about it.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    11 months ago

    what to push: whatever the user opted into

    what not to push: everything else

    you’re welcome

  • Nommer@sh.itjust.works
    7·
    11 months ago

    Almost as bad as the ones that ask you to rate their app every couple of days/weeks. They all get 1 star with a comment saying they kept asking me to rate and nothing else. I’ll ignore the pop-up once or twice but if it gets annoying Ill make it backfire in them.