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Retire the /account/devices/notify API?
According to recently-added FxA server metrics, "devicesNotify" is the cause of more than half of all push notifications sent to clients:
These pushes correspond to clients calling the /accont/devices/notify endpoint to send each other push notifications. In practice I believe that only desktop does this, and for only two reasons: to notify another client that we've connected as a new device, and to notify another client that we sent it a tab.
We have other push notifications that serve these specific purposes now, generated automatically by the FxA server. So I don't think we can be getting a lot of value out of the client-driven notifications.
What do y'all think about retiring this endpoint, by:
- Modifying the FxA server to turn this into a no-op
- Removing the code that uses it from Desktop and allowing it to ride the trains
- At some later date, entirely removing the route from the FxA server.
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+1 - although we might want to be careful re timing around Fennec - this might still end up being the thing that makes us find tabs sent via the clients collection in a timely manner.
➤ Tarik Eshaq commented:
Looks like Desktop doesn’t use this endpoint anymore and retiring it is an FxA server question, so moving to FxA’s Jira and closing the github issue
