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Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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bluetidepro wrote: post #7

Wow, this is a slick interface. I love the Windows Metro look and feel. Great job with this, I'm excited to use this and not have to worry about keeping a bunch of tabs open! How often does it check for new notifications? It would be nice if you could set a variable to check for new notifications every 1 min, 5 mins, 15 mins, etc. Do you have a donate link or something? I would love to say "thank you" with a little m…

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Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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Post by fananta »

chime wrote: post #9
gurumx wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey chime (god this is weird): we had that problem months ago, but we decreased the ping frequency and there haven't been any issues. It doesn't currently do moderator mail, but I'll add it to the issue tracker. Thanks!

Another thing you may want to do is stop pinging Gmail if it returns a couple of failures. I noticed that when Gmail signed off automatically for any reason, any additional pings caused the account to be locked. This is purely anecdotal so dig into it yourself if you have some time. Last thing you want to do is cause Gmail to block your users' mailboxes.

Thanks for the heads up! Gmail was the first service we implemented and have been testing thoroughly so we had some time to settle on an optimal ping frequency. As for now, we're confident this will not block your Gmail.

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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Post by gurumx »

bluetidepro wrote: post #7

Wow, this is a slick interface. I love the Windows Metro look and feel. Great job with this, I'm excited to use this and not have to worry about keeping a bunch of tabs open! How often does it check for new notifications? It would be nice if you could set a variable to check for new notifications every 1 min, 5 mins, 15 mins, etc. Do you have a donate link or something? I would love to say "thank you" with a little m…

We added a small donation link to the bottom of our Help page: http://chimeapp.com/help

Great to hear that you like Chime! The frequency is different for every service, and is also based on a few other metrics. It'll pick up notifications within a few minutes, usually.

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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josscrowcroft wrote: post #18

Beautiful, thanks very much. Is it possible to not receive popups when new notifications arrive? I prefer notifications to be totally silent until I decide to look at them..

Thanks! Of course, click on the Chime pop-up ==> Settings ==> turn off desktop notifications.
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