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Physical URL showing on Nearby app but never creates a silent notification #898

Closed diazdeteran closed 7 years ago

diazdeteran commented 7 years ago

I'm constantly broadcasting a physical URL at home to interact with a few IoT devices. About a few months ago I realized that the silent notification stopped showing. The only way to see this URL is by going directly into Nearby through settings or Chrome (Android version 7.1.1). I validated the URL (https://bienvenido-welcome.appspot.com/) and it returned "Success". The notification has not been muted.

mmocny commented 7 years ago

May be working as expected. Notifications start optimistic but adjust according to usage patterns. If your content is not proving consistently valuable to the public, it will stop showing as often.

For your use case, when you know the IoT devices are at home, hopefully opening the nearby app to find the links is no more tedious than opening your notification drawer.

In other words, Notifications are meant bring attention to great content, not to be a permanently dependable way to access all content.

Hopefully this makes sense!

diazdeteran commented 7 years ago

Good to know. Thanks!

oninross commented 7 years ago

the link to one of my beacons is actually to my personal website. So that is not public worthy? How is it decided that the content is not public worthy?