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Yes.

I maintain an online forum. We used to have an app, but maintaining it was too expensive. I wanted push notifications, so I added notifications via web push. I’ve got a few hundred signups for the feature, so you can see the scale of our operation doesn’t justify both a mobile app and website.

Worst part is that it still requires installing the site as a web app on iOS.

Some chat apps use them. I think uptake has been slow because safari was very late to the party

I think uptake is slow because no one uses them nor wants them.

No one uses them because they don't work

Chicken or egg? They don't work because no one wants to put forth resources to fix it, because we're already inundated with notifications everywhere else. Email is fine.

I do.