Notifications (EPNS?)

[killthebuddh4]

• Messaging without notifications is half-baked
• We need notifications
• EPNS might be a decent stop-gap before implementing our own
• How should we implement notifications?

[seanonchain]

Two ideas here:

1. Use EPNS channels Pros: would integrate nicely with Bridge, would allow other EPNS sites to send notifications that Receiver knows how to handle and ping user for. EPNS phone app can give phone pings. Con: adding another dependency when XMTP could work @killthebuddh4 spend a bit of time on the docs here to get an idea: https://docs.epns.io/developers/concepts/create-your-notif-channel

2. Build Receiver to notify/ping the chatbox for incoming/new XMTP messages.

In either case, we can count the new messages coming in since the last read and show that as a red number on the icon.