Howdy and thanks for sharing that these issues are important to you!
The push notifications issue is important to me. I'm the one who opened #6954 five years ago, when we were first implementing mobile push notifications, and I've encouraged contributors to pick it up a number of times over the years. I appreciate your bringing attention to this -- it will likely make it easier for me to get folks excited about working on this mostly invisible improvement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573940 elsewhere in today's thread has a bit more technical context for those who are curious.
As a bit of side comment, I think how long ago an issue was opened is not what makes it important. About 250/1650 of our open issues are at least 5 years old, and while some old issues are quite important, many of them are still open precisely because they are not important. So while I agree that #6954 is important, my view is that would still be the case if it had been added to the issue tracker yesterday.
I'll post a separate comment about end-to-end encryption of conversations, since that's a complex topic.
The push notifications issue is important to me. I'm the one who opened #6954 five years ago, when we were first implementing mobile push notifications, and I've encouraged contributors to pick it up a number of times over the years. I appreciate your bringing attention to this -- it will likely make it easier for me to get folks excited about working on this mostly invisible improvement. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31573940 elsewhere in today's thread has a bit more technical context for those who are curious.
As a bit of side comment, I think how long ago an issue was opened is not what makes it important. About 250/1650 of our open issues are at least 5 years old, and while some old issues are quite important, many of them are still open precisely because they are not important. So while I agree that #6954 is important, my view is that would still be the case if it had been added to the issue tracker yesterday.
I'll post a separate comment about end-to-end encryption of conversations, since that's a complex topic.
(I lead the Zulip project)