Exploring Apprise instead of maintaining (n)th notification channels

[alexjustesen]

In short, I'm entertaining the idea of dropping all notification channels except database, email and webhooks in favor of integrating with Apprise for notifications.

This discussion and poll is meant to evaluate this decision as it would be considered a deviation and breaking change from the current state. Feel free to use the poll below as a quick yay/nay to voice your opinion and if you have further context please leave a comment as well.

👍 Pros

• Less notification channels I have to support which frees up capacity to work on features.
• 100+ supported notification channels: https://github.com/caronc/apprise?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-notifications

👎 Cons

• Will require separate setup of Apprise by users to integrate with services like Slack, Telegram and Discord.
• tbd...

Thanks in advance and I'm looking forward to hearing everyone's thoughts.

[pigers]

Maybe implement Shoutrrr ?

[alexjustesen]

I had considered it but since Shoutrrr was "inspired by Apprise" it made more sense to consider the more popular project.

[pigers]

yeah - if there's more rich project, then picking it up makes more sense !

[pigers]

had a look at apprise, that would require to provide good installation and configuration routine for users
it's documentation is confusing to read.