Book Club Notification System Development

[TobiasW]

@Gorbit99

That’s what push notifs are for, on mobile they even get delivered through regular notifications any time.

Yep, I know. Still needs to be set up though, that’s why I mentioned it. I never used it, but I think you either need your own server or use a service, so some research included. (After the little research I did, Webpushr seemed best in the free tier).

@Gorbit99

• If you log in, you can request editor access.
• I personally accept that editor request
• At this point, you have access to the existing book clubs, and can create one if it doesn’t yet exist
• When selecting a club, you have the option to send out notifications to all subscribed members, be that a new book starting up, voting period, nomination period, whatever.
• Without logging in even, you can see all the book clubs that were created, and can subscribe to them

Sounds good!

I was thinking of using the WK API (and authorize usernames) instead of a login/registration system to:

• Make sure it’s not some other person pretending to be someone else on WK.
• Not save passwords - I don’t want to be responsible for potential data breaches. (And not having to build a registration system is always nice.)