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Comment by mandlar | Hacker News Reader

And if you really want notifications, they can still be enabled via the Google Chrome app when you visit the Facebook website.

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Not an iPhone user here - do you mean that the Chrome app on iOS has Web Push notification support?

It doesn't look like it does yet.

http://caniuse.com/#search=Notifications

Shame. I wonder if Google could shim it into Chrome iOS?

They should be able to. Embedded Safari allows you to define JavaScript APIs to interface with your app, and the app can register for push notifications.

I just tried that, apparently it doesn't work for messages, which is the only thing I need from Facebook (for the two people who message me there). I guess I'll just keep relying on the twenty-minute-late email notification for messaging.

Personally, I uninstalled the Facebook app but kept the Messenger app (with disabled chat bubble).

Works good enough for me. I browser Facebook on the browser when needed (never) and use Messenger for chat alerts.

On desktop, I use http://messengerfordesktop.com/ to avoid going on the Facebook website.

I also use custom CSS on the Facebook website to break some of it's linearity. This make it less likely that I will browse mindlessly. Facebook UI is designed as a precise drug and simply changing it a little bit will disrupt that. (I use a red UI, a noisy background, bigger fonts, etc.)

I use pidgin, with the newer facebook plugin - it doesn't look as sexy, but it does almost all I need (except for uploading files), and I have a bunch of other accounts connected. When I need to upload stuff, I just go to https://messenger.com

Use http://messenger.com for Facebook messages. In settings, you can turn on notifications.

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