BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky

Currently the notification history in bluenotify is the most recent 100 posts you received notifications for!

There shouldn't be any missing posts! DM me any posts that you should have received but didn't and I can take a look.

Unfortunately the bluesky app itself is responsible for deciding what to do when it opens a link to a post, so that definitely could have been something they changed recently

I'm a bit busy with another project right now, but this is a good idea and in a few weeks I'll try to take a look at doing it!

For those of you who had issues where bluesky's built in post notifications didn't take you to the post, that should be fixed now!

Uninstalling should take care of it!

I've seen one of the bluesky developers post about #2, they're aware and looking into it

I bet #1 will happen eventually, but for me at least it was trickier than expected. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes them a few months to get that working.

I'm just a guy! @austinwitherspoon.com

I'm working on a bunch of silly little video games, but nothing available publicly yet.

rip in pease 🥹

you might not need it anymore!

but the app will continue running and does have a few extra features that bluesky didn't add, so you're more than welcome to keep using it

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BlueNotify will keep running for the foreseeable future!

But yeah, I'm assuming there will be MANY uninstalls coming soon. I can probably downsize to a cheaper server!

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Bluesky officially has post notifications!

BlueNotify will continue to operate for the foreseeable future, but for those of you who don't like having a separate app, now you don't need to have it.

Depending on what kind of phone you have, in your settings app if you find Bluesky you can check if there's an option to open links with it.

On my android it's Settings -> Apps -> Bluesky -> Open By default and I can choose whether the app opens bluesky links or if they should open in a web browser

Have you tried pressing the "Force Resync" button (or editing any of your notification settings) since moving to the new phone? That should be enough to cause the phone to re-register itself for notifications.

I worked really hard to make it really fast

(But also it's probably waaaayyy easier to do that with 8000 people than it is to do that with 30 million people)

I actually made an app to do this so I could see when my wife posts!

Not currently. I can think more about adding this, but some people find the app in its current state too complicated, and I think this may make it too hard for some people.

But I'll think about it and see if there's any nice way of adding this that won't confuse people!

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Long story short, it'll be much harder for them to add this but we'll probably get it in the near future, and I probably can't help a ton myself.

But if they're ever looking to hire an additional programmer who is excited about bluesky... 👀

As far as I know, it's super easy for ME to do this app because I can do whatever I want. The official team has a much harder job because they have to figure out how to do it in a way that integrates into atproto (that bsky runs on), which is a huge system that everybody has to agree on.

I'd always be more than happy to chat with them!

But honestly they have a solid dev team and there's nothing technically tricky about this app, and I've heard they're working on it (eventually)!

Screenshot of BlueNotify's Edit Notifications tab, featuring separate options for each user's notifications such as Post, Repost, Reply to somebody you follow, reply to anybody, and required or blocked words.

Screenshot of a bluenotify post notification.

BlueNotify is a free app that gives you notifications when your friends post on Bluesky!

You can customize exactly what type of posts you want notifications for, and even filter out certain keywords.

It's free for IOS, Android, and your browser. Links in my bio.

It's available in the app store for iPhones and androids, as well as having a web version if you want it on your computer. Links in my bio

Thank god maybe I can finally rest

There's no official way yet but I've heard they're working on it

In the meantime I made a free app that does this!

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Everything is back to normal!

I'm still not sure what the source of the networking issue was, but it was a great fire drill and BlueNotify is running on the original server again.

As far as I can tell, zero notifications were lost despite the issues!

Thank god I wrote the code to be distributed and able to run parts on other computers in an emergency if needed. That is working perfectly fine - it's just spooky to have it run on my home PC.

Anyway, service will continue as usual while I try to figure out what's going on with the main server.