element-hq / element-hq/element-android

When are Notifications going to be RELIABLE??? (Android + all other Element platform releases)

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Description

### Steps to reproduce

Notifications have been extremely unreliable for going on 5 years now, and there are an endless supply of github issues for the Android, Desktop, Web, iOS, other platforms.

It's gotten to the point now where I really don't see ANY developer engagement on this topic, or even any actual interest in having it corrected.

It is completely pointless to use any chat program where notifications of messages (or even having the messages at all) are as unreliable (extremely unreliable) as they are with the Element + Matrix ecosystem.

I don't want to switch away from Element + Matrix, but frankly this is now being ignored by the developers (so far as I can tell) and it's genuinely that big of a deal that if this really isn't taken seriously, myself and many others are going to just stop using Element. I know many already have.

The devs NEEEEEEED to take this seriously. This is a CHAT app. It's extremely obvious why this matters, and why the notifications (and background sync/related) problems NEED TO BE COMPREHENSIVELY FIXED ON ALL PLATFORMS.

This issue is not tied to any specific version or platform, it happens on ALL of them and has done so for years.

Many people have already submitted logs, reports, and on and on and on... only to lead to silence from the devs, and no releases with any changes improving it.

So... WHEN is this going to be taken SERIOUSLY???

### Outcome

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### Will you send logs?

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### Are you willing to provide a PR?

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