Ask HN: What happened to the HNNotify service?

Here is a simple html 5 app that I made, that lets you add watchers for HN and reddit threads as part of its functionality.

http://z-petal.com/ceasium/#/hackerNews

It runs in your browser itself, and stores all the data in browsers local storage.

Not sure, but I just emailed the creator.

Emails are flowing again it appears.

FYI: I just got notice of a reply that happened 26 days ago. Perhaps it is currently being sorted out.

Same here.

Could it be because Firebase provides HNs API, and Firebase is going through a technical transition as part of Google? I.e. Something broke and someone hasn't noticed or the right person can't be contacted to get it fixed.

That's an interesting thought. It has gone on the fritz before and then returned to functioning, so I am not yet all up in arms. I hope you are right and things will start working again some time soon.

Looks like HN Notify emails are flowing again :D