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Nah, not DIY. I was curious about in-app notifications, yes, and you're right about a dynamic data store. But that's another service to maintain and support, so it never seems to get on the roadmap. Also, sometimes the messages need something special like a checkbox "I agree to new T&C's", etc, which requires new code (at least, the first time round), and storage of who agreed and didn't.

Hadn't heard of Courier.com so will check that out.

I have now moved the live demo site to this url:

<https://demo-dashboard.this-is-not-a-drill.com>

You can also find it via the home page: <https://this-is-not-a-drill.com>

Thanks for the feedback! You currently cannot target individual users, but adding a way to upload a list of user ids to any alert, so the alert only gets shown to them, is on the roadmap.

Re dashes in the name, yeah, I agree. Cheers!

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Hmm, a simple google search found Project Diaspora https://joindiaspora.com/ which aims to do what I just wrote. Wonder how close they really are...

Our primary app got shut down for "spamminess" on 6/20/11 (one week ago). We had 4M users. We've appealed. No response. A lot of users contact us plaintively hoping the app will come back. Sigh. Another small tech business will go kaput (ours) and half a million bucks will go down the tubes.

This is obviously just another similar data point on this thread, but what I want to add is to the discussion is this idea: why not create an completely OSS facebook? If a bitcoin can exist (and hell, a Linux), why not a decentralized open-source facebook? The core functionality is not that complex, IMHO. Well, Linux is complex and it took decades to perfect... but the need for it was pretty clear and it's proved itself. But Facebook, OTOH, is not a complex operating system or even a super-complex search engine (ala Google). It's simply a network of interconnected user accounts with certain assets assigned to each account (history, preferences, content, etc), and info feeds (transient) delivered to those accounts via various formats.

If such a project were OSS, people would design their own feed sorting algo's, their own notification systems, and most of all their own "spam" filtering systems, as plugins, all of which could mean nobody needs to "go dark" to satisfy the whims of one corporate entity.