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3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications

2025-04-09T23:35:11Z

HighFlyingAce: /* Tables of Notifications */ add zoom notifications

Fill in a table with all the notifications, possible images that go along with it, and explanation. If anybody knows how to name a table, please let me know. Thanks! '''[[User:42.book.addict|42.book.addict]][[User talk:42.book.addict|Talk to me!]]''' 21:25, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

==Description==
*15 notifications have been found so far for [[3074: Push Notifications]].
*Below is a list of all discovered notifications
*There are different “sources” of notifications and the notifications will be sorted into tables by those sources

==Tables of Notifications==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-family:monospace"
!Source
!Notification

|-
|xkcd notification system notifications
|Success: A notification about the new xkcd comic has been sent!

|-
|xkcd notification system notifications
|Notification: No new xkcd comic has been posted since the last notification

|-
|xkcd notification system notifications
|This is a test notification. If you’re seeing this, the notification system is configured incorrectly.

|-
|community message board
|Have you seen my cat?

|-
|Cat Fact!
|The animal closest to the cat family without actually being in it is the linsang.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|Cat nose prints are distinctive in the same way as human fingerprints.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|The first known cat video was recorded in 1894.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|Cats can detect the active ingredient of catnip, nepetalactone, at less than one part per billion.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|The oldest known cat lived to an age of 38 years old. Her name was Creme Puff.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|Unlike humans, cats are capable of drinking saltwater if necessary for survival.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|Disneyland is home to approximately 200 feral cats.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|Many domestic cats can reach a top speed higher than Usain Bolt's 2009 sprint speed record.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|Estimates place the number of cats on Earth somewhere between 500 million and 1 billion.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|"Litter" is the collective noun for a group of kittens born together.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|"Clowder" is one of the multiple collective nouns for cats.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|"Clutter" is one of the multiple collective nouns for cats.

|-
|Cat Fact!
|"Pounce" is one of the multiple collective nouns for cats.

|-
|Cat Facts
|Meow!

|-
|Cat Facts
|Meow Meow!

|-
|Cat Facts
|Meow Meow Meow!

|-
|Cat Facts
|Meow Meow Meow Meow!

|-
|xkcd Weather Notification System
|Click here to get weather notifications!
|-
|Weather Notification Setup Wizard
|Now determining your location! Don't worry, this shouldn't take too long.
|-
|Please choose your location
|Are you in Albany? Click here to set your location to Albany.
|-
|Weather Information
|You are subscribed to weather reports from Albany
|-
|Weather report from Albany
|KALB 09215Z 33012KT 10SM FEW060 05/M09 A3021 RMK A02 SLP2..

|-
|xkcd News
|We’ve launched a Youtube channel for What If? videos! Ring the bell, like, and subscribe!

|-
|System Log
|(INFO): A user has paused notifications

|-
|Constant Reminders
|At the tone, Zero will become a Real Number

|-
|Constant reminders
|The Earth is spinning at a rate of 1 rpd

|-
|How many times can you click this?
|You’ve clicked this notification 0 times

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(62,12)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(28,15)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(59,7)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (14,3)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(51, 25)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(45, 22)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(75, 18)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(59, 8)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (12,3)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(25, 24)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(31, 13)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(51, 22)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(52, 26)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(52, 26)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(27, 16)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (4,5)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(26,15)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(58,20)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (3,1)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(30,23)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(37,6)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(45,21)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(42,21)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (15,2)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(63,21)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(13,15)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(29,22)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(16,26)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(25,10)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(33,19)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(32,6)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (12,9)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(53,10)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(24,12)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(47,23)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(29,17)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(19,25)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(47,12)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(50,4)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(50,10)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(57,28)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(17,14)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(3,18)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(36,14)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(14,19)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (9,8)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(18,27)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(61,16)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(32,7)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(44,1)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(58,12)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(58,15)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(56,25)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (14,5)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(21,27)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(17,20)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(39,22)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(52,14)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(27,23)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(21,22)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(15,27)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(74,16)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(19,16)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(53,27)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(60,24)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(11,18)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(73,20)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(23,3)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (13,4)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(56,17)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(16,10)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(29,18)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(9,18)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(50,2)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(65,13)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(75,13)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(16,20)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(7,19)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(27,7)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(21,8)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(59,28)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(43,21)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(15,11)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(42,8)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(56,8)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(69,11)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|oh look! (3,6)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(60,17)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(60,20)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(29,2)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(34,17)

|-
|Zoom Notification
|(54,12)

|-
|Erroneous Alert
|⚠️ Error: Too many errors

|-
|Carriage Return Line Feed
|The next station is Putney Bridge. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform.

|-
|Erroneous Alert
|⚠️ Boop.

|-
|Constant Reminders
|At the tone, The Golden Ration will equal half of 1 plus SQRT(5)

|-
|Comment and Subscribe
|Leave your thoughts in the comments below!

|}

3074: Push Notifications

2025-04-09T23:30:03Z

HighFlyingAce: add notification type (it disappeared when clicked on)

{{comic
| number = 3074
| date = April 9, 2025
| title = Push Notifications
| image = push_notifications_2x.png
| imagesize = 277x347px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = NOTIFICATION: Now dismissing a head of the Notification Hydra… NOTIFICATION: Success! You have dismissed a head of the Notification Hydra!
}}
* To experience the interactivity, visit the [https://xkcd.com/3074/ original comic].

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|Created by a DELAYED BOT - Please write a better overall explanation and explain other functions of the comic. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
This interactive comic is the 15th [[:Category:April fools' comics|April Fools' Day]] comic released by Randall, just over a week late. It uses {{w|push notifications}} to change the comic image over time and make other statements. A table of notifications can be seen at [[3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications]].

After viewing the comic for the first time, there is a sequence of notifications rendered over the comic itself. After clicking through these, you are provided with two buttons: one labeled "Emergency Stop" which will halt all notifications, and one labeled "Silence notifications at a cost" which will silence notifications at the cost of notifying two random people.

If you press silence notifications too much the laptop blows up.

Notification types include:
* One asking you to select a word, with further notifications to be sent whenever someone chooses the same word as you.
* A few starter notifications about this comic, the successful sending of a notification of this comic, and the lack of another comic.
* A "streak" notification counting the number of times you've clicked it. The message changes every 10 clicks, and after 50 clicks there is an offer to make future clicks count twice, making this a simple version of {{w|Cookie Clicker}}. There are occasionally notifications encouraging you to keep clicking and "extend your streak," tempting you with "a free click to keep you going"
* A "have you seen my cat?" notification which spawns several clickable cats on the comic.
* Cat fact notifications that appear when a cat is clicked.
* Various "erroneous errors" with a warning triangle, some with just flavor text, some corresponding to changes in the comic image.
** A "gravity malfunction" indicating a change to the floating image.
** An HTTP malfunction with Zalgo text indicating a change to the tentacle image.
** An error for not enough errors.
** An error for too many errors.
** A Kernel Panic indicating the Kernel can't remember what number comes after 38
** "Your computer has encountered an error" indicating a change to the fire image.
* "Zoom notifications" including numeric coordinates, sometimes prefixed with "oh look!"
* "Constant reminders" stating what a mathematical constant's value will be "at the tone". (This is in reference to time-of-day phone services, largely obsolete since the popularization of the internet, which you could call to hear the exact time at a given tone.) There are also joke constants such as "your favorite number will be equal to 14." Constants include
** The silver ratio (1 + the square root of 2)
** Pi (3.14159...)
* A notification that offers to provide weather alerts for your location, which leads into a series of notifications asking whether you live in a named city.
* A notification claiming that your computer ballast needs emptying, along with the computer room being flooded
* A reminder that the Earth spins at 1 rpd (rotation per day).
* A "word game" notification where you are invited to pick a word, and informed you will be notified when anyone else picks it as their word
* An invitation to subscribe to the "What if?" YouTube channel
* A notification with the heading "System Log" that reads (INFO): A user has paused notifications
* A reminder to comment and subscribe, leading to the wikipedia page [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Mathematics Talk:Mathematics]

Comic images include:
* Cueball sitting at his desk, with his laptop.
* Cueball sitting at his desk, with a small potted plant.
* Cueball sitting at his desk, with a much larger plant that has clearly outgrown the pot, at least vertically.
* Cueball sitting at his desk, with a cat in the foreground near the point of view.
* Cueball sitting at his desk, his chair replaced with a large cat.
* Cueball sitting farther back from his desk, with the laptop on the desk on fire.
* Cueball, the desk, and the laptop floating.
* Cueball sitting at his desk, shielding his face with his arm from a tentacle coming out of the laptop screen.
* Cueball spinning in his chair.
* Cueball sitting on the desk, facing the laptop on the chair.
* The desk vacant with "Game Over" displayed if you use the emergency stop.
* Cueball sitting on the desk, with a sword leaning against the desk.
* The room flooded 2/3 of the way up the desk.
* Cueball sitting at his desk, but with the laptop much larger.
* Cueball kneeling on the chair, which is raised up higher than the desk, and leaning over to use the laptop

There is also an image of a cat that moves around when you reload the page. It moves slightly when you move your mouse over it to "pet" it. It has its own title text of :3 Clicking it will send a cat fact notification.

The title text references the {{w|Lernaean Hydra}}, a multi-headed serpent-like monster from Greek mythology. In many stories, such as {{w|Labours_of_Hercules#Second:_Lernaean_Hydra|the second labour of Hercules}}, when one of its heads was cut off, two heads would grow in its place, resulting in more heads than before. Something similar has happened in the title text itself: there was a notification that was requested to be dismissed, and it created two more notifications notifying the user of the status of the dismissal.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[Cueball sits at a desk in an office chair. He is typing on a computer.]
:[Gray message boxes with a small circled “x” at the top right corner are shown:]
:Happy April 1st (observed)!
:To celebrate, we were excited to introduce a new xkcd.com feature: push notifications for new comics!
:Unfortunately, this feature has gone horribly wrong.
:Until further notice, we are asking people ''NOT'' to sign up for new comic notifications.
:Frankly, we recommend not even clicking on any notifications to learn more.
:''Click this notification to learn more!'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:“Push notifications for new comics” sounds like a simple feature, right?
:There’s a nice API for browser notifications. xkcd updates three times a week.
:So you just send a notification for each update, right?
:That’s what we thought, too.
:''Click to continue!'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:[To the side of the comic frame is a big, horizontal hexagonal stop sign]
:Sign: Emergency STOP
:Below the sign: ''Halt ALL notifications and forget everything''
:The good news is that we did build a button to stop xkcd new comic notifications.
:You can press this button at any time and the system will stop sending you notifications.
:The nightmare will be over and the server will forget you ever existed.
:This part definitely works.
:''The rest of the system does NOT work.'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:We’re sorry.
:We don’t know how things went so wrong.
:The system is sending more than three notifications a week. A LOT more.
:We cannot recommend signing up for xkcd new comic notifications at this time.
:''Click here to ignore the warnings.'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:No, really.
:Our notification system may send a large number of very real system notifications.
:These may flood your browser, displace other notifications, and cause problems.
:<big>⚠️DO NOT ENABLE XKCD NEW COMIC NOTIFICATIONS⚠️</big>
:''Yeah, I get it, but I definitely want to enable xkcd new comic notifications.'' (a circled arrow is shown)

:Are you sure?
:''Yes!'' (a circled arrow is shown)
:Absolutely sure?
:''YES!!'' (a circled arrow is shown)
:To enable push notifications on mobile you need to add xkcd.com to your home screen.

:''Click here to subscribe to xkcd notifications''

{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
:[Initial static image shows Cueball sat on an office chair at a desk using a laptop computer. A notification 'window' is speech-bubbled above the computer]
:[Grey notification box, header:] April 1st (Observed)
:[Notification box, further text:] Open xkcd.com to view.

:[When viewed live, various xkcd-style popover notifications appear, each can be dismissed or (usually the last on every page) invited to press an 'onwards'-style button.]

:[First page of messages]
:Happy April 1st! To celebrate, we were excited to introduce a new xkcd.com feature: Push Notifications for new comics!
:Unfortunately, this feature has gone horribly wrong.
:Until further notice, we are asking people NOT to sign up for new comic notifications.
:Frankly, we recommend not even clicking on any notifications to learn more.
:[Notification with 'onwards button':] ''Click on this notification to learn more''

:[Upon choosing to continue, further messages appear, replacing any prior ones left open]
:"Push Notifications for new comics" sounds like a simple feature, right?
:There's a nice API for browser notifications, xkcd updates three times a week.
:So you just send a notification for each upafte, right?
:That's what we thought, too.
:[Notification with 'onwards button':] ''Click on this notification to continue''

:[Next set of popover messages]
:The good news is that we did build a button to STOP xkcd new comic notifications.
:You can press this button at any time and the system will stop sending you notifications.
:The nightmare will be over and the server will forget you ever existed.
:This part definitely works.
:[Notification with 'onwards':] ''The rest of the system does not work.''
:[To the right of the comic frame, a red, octagonal button has white text upon it:]Emergency Stop
:[Below the button is red text:] Halt all notifications and forget everything

:[Next set of popovers, "stop" button remains permanently so long as you continue]
:We're sorry.
:We didn't know how things went so wrong.
:The system is sending more than three notifications at this time.
:['Onwards' notification:] ''Click here to ignore the warnings''

:[Next set.]
:No, really.
:Our notification system may send a large amount of very real system notifications.
:These may flood your browser, displace other notifications, and cause problems.
:[Text bookended by warning triangles:] Do not enable xkcd new comic notifications
:['Onwards':] Yeah, I get it, but I definitely want to enable xkcd new comic notifications

:[Just two popovers, initially]
:Are you sure?
:['Onwards':] Yes
:[On clicking onwards, two more appear below]
:Absolutely sure?
:['Onwards':] Yes!!
:[On clicking, a further popover]
:[Red-tinted 'onwards'-style popover with warnings:] Click here to subscribe to xkcd notifications.

:[...something appeared then dissappeared...]
:[Genuine(?) browser dialogue activated:] xkcd.com wants to send you notifications. Block / Allow

:[If allowed, one more popover in the original style]
:Success!!
:[Below the Emergency Stop button, an oval gray button appears labeled in white:] Silence notifications at a cost
:[Below that, in grey text:]Temporarily pause your notifications at the cost of notifying two random people.

:[Further changes include the contents of the pane, whether Cueball is sat at the laptop, whether the laptop is larger, or a pot-plant, whether there are cats in the frame, outside the frame, sat on the Stop buttons, whether Cueball is sat on a large cat instead of an office chair...]
{{comic discussion}}
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