Lemmy 1.0: More granular notification counts

[Sjmarf]

In Lemmy 0.19, the notification count response is:

{
    "replies": 0,
    "mentions": 0,
    "private_messages": 0
}

In Lemmy 1.0, it has been changed to:

{
    "notification_count": 0,
    "report_count": 0,
    "pending_follow_count": 0,
    "registration_application_count": 0
}

This makes it impossible to see which type of notification you've got without loading the inbox. The app I develop (Mlem) has a setting which uses that information:

I would appreciate if you'd consider adding it back. If not, we can remove the setting, it's not a big deal.

[Nutomic]

Are these separate counts really useful, and used by people? I can see that disabling reply notifications would help if you regularly create threads with lots of comments. But in 1.0 there is also an option to mute notifications in a community or post, which should cover this.

[Sjmarf]

We don't know how well-used it is because we don't collect any sort of telemetry. It was introduced for the use-case you mentioned. Muting notifications is a cool feature, that's a good alternative.

I'll ask the community whether anyone uses it and remove it if not, thanks 👍

[dessalines]

Same, I can't see a reason it makes sense to break these out again.