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Notifyr: a new service for push notifications

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Re: Notifyr: a new service for push notifications

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Post by nehz »

borski wrote: post #8
nehz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your comment. We believe offering our users more choice is always a good thing. Moreover, while we do provide a similar service, the way we deliver and our goals are slightly different. Pusher uses WebSockets; this is awesome and a very forward thinking technology however can be limited by older browsers and proxies not supporting the WebSocket connection. Notifyr uses EventSource (also a HTML5 spec) and X…

Pusher actually degrades to Flash Sockets if a browser doesn't support WebSockets: http://pusher.com/docs/flash_fallback Here's their browser compatibility: http://pusher.com/docs/browser_compatibility I'm biased - we use Pusher and love it - but regardless, didn't want misinformation spread. :) I'm all for competition.

Yup no worries :D And Pusher is a fantastic service

Re: Notifyr: a new service for push notifications

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Post by knes »

borski wrote: post #8
nehz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for your comment. We believe offering our users more choice is always a good thing. Moreover, while we do provide a similar service, the way we deliver and our goals are slightly different. Pusher uses WebSockets; this is awesome and a very forward thinking technology however can be limited by older browsers and proxies not supporting the WebSocket connection. Notifyr uses EventSource (also a HTML5 spec) and X…

Pusher actually degrades to Flash Sockets if a browser doesn't support WebSockets: http://pusher.com/docs/flash_fallback Here's their browser compatibility: http://pusher.com/docs/browser_compatibility I'm biased - we use Pusher and love it - but regardless, didn't want misinformation spread. :) I'm all for competition.

On what project do you use Pusher? tinfoilsecurity.com ?

Re: Notifyr: a new service for push notifications

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Post by macspoofing »

Looks nice, but what's the difference between Notifyr and:

• http://www.buddy.com/ • http://js.dotcloud.com/ • https://cloudmine.me/ • http://backlift.github.com/docs/ • http://www.meteor.com/main • https://parse.com/about/index • http://derbyjs.com/ • http://www.kinvey.com/ • http://www.stackmob.com/ • http://www.appcelerator.com/cloud • http://pusher.com/ • http://www.firebase.com/ • http://www.pubnub.com/ • https://www.getbridge.com/ • https://www.tambur.io/

Re: Notifyr: a new service for push notifications

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Post by jschuur »

nehz wrote: post #3
StavrosK wrote: post #2

How is this different from Pusher or the other dozen services like this out there?

Thanks for your comment. We believe offering our users more choice is always a good thing. Moreover, while we do provide a similar service, the way we deliver and our goals are slightly different. Pusher uses WebSockets; this is awesome and a very forward thinking technology however can be limited by older browsers and proxies not supporting the WebSocket connection. Notifyr uses EventSource (also a HTML5 spec) and X…

More choice is only a good thing when you make it abundantly clear what it is you're going different, and why someone should use you. Otherwise, you're just making it harder for people to make a decision about what tools to use. Your front page doesn't do a very good job at that right now.

The fact that the claim you made here about Pusher and legacy was so quickly disproven, makes things even worse.

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