Notifications
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How Lurker keeps you informed across all your devices.
How notifications work
- One enabled toggle per signal — Lurker decides whether to show an in-app toast or send a web-push notification based on where your attention is.
- Highlights and direct messages as notification triggers.
Web push
- Enabling push so you're notified even when no tab is open.
- Per-device behavior and presence.
The iOS and Android apps
- The apps use native push. On lurker.chat it's built in. On a self-hosted server the admin turns it on under Admin → Notifications with push.lurker.chat; see the self-hosting guide.
- Until it's on, the apps don't ask for notification permission and contact nothing.
Auto-away
- Auto-away when no client is in front of you and no IRC client is attached through the bouncer, and automatic return. A client's background connection that sends
AWAY *doesn't count. A network you set away yourself keeps that away: auto-away skips it, and returning doesn't clear it.