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fzaninotto

This is nice, but I wonder about the actual use cases of such a service, given the very loose permissions:

1. Anyone can subscribe to a channel 2. Any registered user can publish to a channel 3. Only registered users can publish to their personal channel (@username)

The second point in particular is problematic. I don't want to add notifications to my app, only to have a script kiddie use is to spam my users.

throwaway_352

The second point is solved with the 3rd point I think. In your case you need to create a user channel

From the FAQ:

Ahey.io has two types of channels:
Regular channels: Any authenticated user can publish to these channels.
User channels: These channels are in the format @username, and only the user who created the user account can publish to it.
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