This app helps sick patients navigate the healthcare system. Notifications were requested by users so that they don't need to continuously go back to the web app to see if there are any updates.
Now do you see why "the average user" isn't useful to determine how to build something? Even if most people suck at using email, in my app it works well.
This experience is geographically or demographically unique.
Do you find that most users do authentication via phone number instead of email?
Please be kind and not sneer as the guidelines suggest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
You could easily reword you comment to.
> In my experience the average user barely uses email.
Unless you know parent commenter personally I don't think you're competent enough to judge their experience in an online discussion.
I use them for some local forums to notify me of replies. Don't want to fill up my inbox for this.
Push notifications are subject to the same HIPPA rules as sms. You can’t included sensitive info.
Spammy notification requests should be mitigated with better browser guards for requesting them. The fact that there is spam does not somehow invalidate that there are legitimate use cases people want them for.
This includes what vaccine I received, the lot number of its production, plus information from v-safe[1] and reminders to check in telling the government how I feel on days after the vaccine.