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Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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OT but i wish they'd add Mastodon support. https://github.com/caronc/apprise/issues/586

Let me see what I can do about prioritizing this one a bit.

That would be great! I've only had a quick look at the docs, but the API seems reasonable:

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/apps/oauth/ https://docs.joinmastodon.org/methods/statuses/

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Is that really much different than anything else other than an faq? No promises so they could be selling your info more than anyone else…

I am absolutely making promises. See the privacy policy: https://ntfy.sh/docs/privacy/ > I love free software, and I'm doing this because it's fun. I have no bad intentions, and I will never monetize or sell your information, and this service and software will always stay free and open. If you're still paranoid (which is your right), go host it yourself, or wait until I finished implementing E2E :-D

I don’t really know what anyone is doing.

Im just wondering why anyone would feel better about an faq that really isn’t much different than anything else.

The application, I’ve no idea/ don’t assume any malicious intent or actions.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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It's quite cheap to run. It's just one small EC2 instance, and it's usually idling around a load average of 0.1 (though right now it's at 1, hehe). It costs me about $24/month. The Apple developer license costs $100 per year, so it's ~$400/year. As of recently, that's entirely covered by donations. I am incredibly humbled by the sponsorships. I would have never thought ntfy would take off like that. I love open sourc…

This is super cool. If you don’t mind saying, how many connections do you tend to keep open at steady state?

Here are some stats from last night showing the volume of messages:

   IPs: 9756
   Clients: 9980
   - Google Play: 2796
   - F-Droid: 5985
   - iOS: 794
   - curl: 62
   - other: 343
   Messages: 
   - Successful: 310076
   - Failed (rate limited): 104741
   - Failed (other): 6511

   Top publishers (* = limit exemption):
   22908 matrix.org*
   22352 matrix.gateway.unifiedpush.org*
   18286 up.schildi.chat*
   16134 192.124.x.x
   14056 matrix.envs.net*
   13376 108.35.x.x
   7794 114.132.x.x
   6035 112.78.x.x
   5432 88.99.x.x
   5366 138.201.x.x   
In terms of open connections, it varies, but right now it's 5k active connections. But there are many many self-hosters out there, and the people using Firebase (no "instant delivery") are also not counted in that.

You can subscribe to the stats above using the https://ntfy.sh/stats topic (old messages are only cached for 12h, so half the day it shows up as empty)

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Just gave the developer $50 so he doesn't need to reduce monthly costs. I like the service running well.

That is nice of you and you've helped them to cover server costs for the next two months. Server optimisations can help them reduce the cost further.

It is super nice, isn't it? I am so amazed how awesome people in the open source community are.

As for the scale question: The server is already tuned for scale: https://ntfy.sh/docs/config/#tuning-for-scale

If you have any more ideas of what nobs to turn, let me know.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Disclaimer: I know the developer of Ntfy and have worked with them in the past. I love this tool because it sits in a very convenient place in the alerting and monitoring stack. At work the kind of alerting pipelines and frameworks needed can by necessity end up being nontrivial and somewhat sophisticated. If you run some stuff at home or in the cloud or whatever, I have often wanted some kind of simple alerting but…

Uhhhh. Who are you? Now I wanna know.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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I love this project. Super simple to interface with, accomplishes the task very well, reliable, good documentation. It's hard to think of better design and execution for this type of utility. I use it to get notifications of the CI running on build.wireguard.com, which took less than a minute to get working. Sometimes I'll use it for random one-off notifications, like when a command finishes running or some shell scr…

Thank you for saying that Jason; it means a lot coming from you.

I remember when you sent me that email months ago it was super cool for me. The creator of WireGuard emailing meee? whoa! Anyway. Thanks again for the kind words.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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If I were to run my own personal instance of this that cost would be quite high. A free Oracle Cloud VM or $5 Digital Ocean droplet would be the way I go.

A free Oracle Cloud VM still costs you your soul, in perpetuity.

That can't be right, some of us have worked for IBM and no longer have souls.

Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

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Correct.

So, any nice topics? ;)

There are two useful public topics: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#public-topics

- https://ntfy.sh/announcements for announcements (usually only release announcements) - https://ntfy.sh/stats for daily stats (right before midnight UTC)

Note that messages are only cached for 12h server-side, so you'll not see any messages in there mostly. I suggest to just subscribe and see if you like getting these messages.

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