Talk:3074: Push Notifications

So...this is the April Fool's comic, if I'm not mistaken... Oh ye of little faith! 172.71.26.106 20:00, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I turned this on thinking it would just be a few every so often but I quickly realized how this is xkcd and it doesn't "joke". I had to turn this off because it disrupted my schoolwork by popping up every fricking 5 minutes -- Moss (talk) 20:22, 9 April 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Personally, I'm disappointed by how long I have to wait between notifications. 172.71.178.32 15:39, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Apparently my employer (or ublock) is keeping me from experiencing the full effect of any notifications. All I get is "An *actual* error has occurred. 162.158.91.173 20:52, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, I'm confused too. I've tried Chrome and got nothing. I've tried Edge and got effectively nothing. I progressed one message further, but nothing showed up. No notifications, popups, or whatever. And I have never installed an add-on for Edge. Edge did give me access to the game over screen by disabling notifications, but when I tried to re-enable them, nothing happened.

Is this a mobile-only thing? EebstertheGreat (talk) 02:51, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm having the same issue. Firefox doesn't work, which I understand, but neither does Safari. I haven't gotten a single notification. Mushrooms (talk) 06:57, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Problem solved! Turns out I *was* getting notifications, I just wasn't seeing them. --Mushrooms (talk) 07:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Where were you getting them? 172.70.207.212 17:08, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

What the heck are the "Zoom Notification" ones, with just a pair of numbers? Now that I've been sitting with this for a little bit, they're by far the most common notifications, and the most mysterious. What is "zoom"ing or should be zoomed-in-on or whatever, and what do the two numbers signify? 172.68.22.75 20:35, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I think they're coordinates. So far (x,y) has had x from 4 fo 73 (that I've seen) and y from 2 to 28. That gives a tad over 2000 possible combinations, but omething tells me there won't be more than 500 or so in total. Quite a few y=24 (not yet adjacent by x), and any given x has 0 to 3 different y partners (so far). They do repeat (I'm not recording how many times, but I'm scatterplotting what I get). The ones prefixed with "oh look!" are tightly clustered in x=6..13 and y=4..11, so far, with no non-"oh look!" ones there, so I'm plotting them in a different marker. I suspect, after many many more Zoom Notifications, I'll be left with (enough of) a pixelated image's pixels (of two types, background colour excluded), or else I'm doing it wrong and I should be drawing lines between the dots, but I never managed to grab them all, so I'm relying on it being a random "spraygun droplets" sort of image-reveal. (Still some way to go...) 172.71.241.66 23:08, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Also, Zoom is a video chat app, if you didn't know that. That's the joke. EebstertheGreat (talk) 02:53, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

"They're by far the most common" - not for me - I got a couple early on, and nothing since. All I'm getting now (apart from cat ones when I click a cat) is constant 'comment and subscribe' ones.172.71.178.28 16:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Last night, right from the start (well, as soon as I got around to going through the process, after I started this Talk page off), Zoom stuff was the most common. The messages would change as I was documenting them, they were more frequent than the "you have clicked N times" ones. This morning, on reconnecting (exactly how much "Push" there is to the Push Notifications, I don't know, I suspect it's more long-polling in the end), I have had zero new Zoom messages, the "clicked N times" had promoted itself to "click Nth away, N+1th pops up immediately" most of the time, with Constants and Leave A Message On This Random Wikitalk and Old Comic Published essentially, tying for next most frequent, except for when the occasional Cat Facts splurge gets mixed in (all this without re-viewing the comic-page's tab).

Anyway, my "spraygun coordinates" list hasn't been expanded all today. I was wondering if its frequency had been reduced, server-side, because it was turning out to be the most polled (and/or pushed) bit of information... And that happened while I was asleep anyway.

Whilst writing this, I only actually got three alerts... Old Comic, Erroneous Error and Have You Seen My Cat? No... now four, just had a Constant Reminder. Earlier today, I'd have had twice as many in merely a few seconds, at times. So maybe (effective) throttling back has happened across the board, one way or another. 172.69.43.171 21:16, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Table of notification

Made a new page called 3074: Push Notifications/Table of Notifications, much like 1506: xkcloud/List of Permalinks. I’m hoping that we can put all of the possible notifications into the table, along with any possible images that go along with it and an explanation (if necessary). 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:26, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I think it might be a good idea to make the table something more like source/name/notification, because there are chains of notifications where the name changes, like the How Many Times Can You Click This? notification. --Magicalus (talk) 23:19, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Might even want to track the URL that the notification leads to in the cases where it opens a new tab. 172.71.142.57

Did you mean a page much like 1506:_xkcloud/List_of_Permalinks? 162.158.175.171 01:25, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Weird, someone changed that. I just reverted it. --Jack (t|c) 02:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Yes, the user behind this change appears to have a keyboard->leopard sort of autochanger active (for cloud->butt) (unless they're deliberately doing it alongside deliberate changes to try to get it under the radar?)... I reverted something else they did, with the intention to check everything else (in Right Click's explanation) and unreverting the actually good changes. 172.70.162.160 08:39, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

It's like herding LOLcats... anyone else remembering the Secretary arc about now? 172.71.142.2 16:12, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I clicked on the silence notifications at a cost button a lot and it set Cueball's PC on fire?

Code source

I found what is presumably the source code (?) of the comic through the transcript. It’s all JS pages. No idea what they mean (I’m not good with code), but I’m sure that there are some on here that can help dissect it. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 21:50, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/manifest.json

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/42.4f5b21b3.js

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/index.js?v=1

I found this list of states in there, saved to the "iU" variable: intro, wordgame, gameover, biglaptop, boat, default, floating, longdesk, missing, nekotree, nekotree2, nekowater, nodesk, onfire, peek, shark, spinning, squirrel, squirreldesk, squirrelplant, standing, sword, tallchair, tentacle, water, wizard, bigplant, catchair, catonhead, compiling, floor, plant, reverse. Presumably, this is all the images we're looking for. I'll get back to you if I identify what chooses them or all their actual filepaths. --Jack (t|c) 00:43, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I found more urls:

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/async/marconi-sw.e9d36d05.js

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/async/491.7b4e7556.js

https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/js/async/491.7b4e7556.js --172.69.23.45 03:11, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I have a sneaking suspicion the Zoom Notifications are sketching out an image of some sort (Update: after plotting like 60 of them no apparent pattern is to be found) SkiesShaper (talk) 22:24, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

I've plotted 397 and it seems to be forming some kind of animal. Maybe a cat, given the comic theme? 172.68.35.119 23:24, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

That could make sense yeah - there is definitely an organic sort of pattern emerging from the points I've been plotting out SkiesShaper (talk) 00:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure it's a turtle. I have 311 points so far and while it isn't clear, it looks like a turtle. IMW (talk) 01:51, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

After plotting more I think the "Oh look" coordinates help with drawing out a butterfly sitting on the left side of the turtle. IMW (talk) 03:36, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I also am seeing a turtle after graphing the non-“Oh look” ones (and flipping the image vertically). Could the “Zoom notifications” be a reference to 1416: Pixels, which is about “zooming” in on turtles? 172.68.12.119 12:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Is it fractal? If you zoom in, is it turtles all the way down? 172.68.186.43 14:15, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Once we have enough coordinates, someone should plot them and upload the image. 172.71.142.56 23:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

when the image is saved, it appears to have a hex code as a file name. could be some other thing though Pncak (talk) 04:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Apparently one of the notifications is: "The Earth is spinning at a rate of 1 rpd" This is true if you round it, but not exact. The time it takes to rotate is called a sidereal day, and there's one extra sidereal day a year. Basically, there's one solar day removed in a year, because the Earth's motion around the sun cancels it out. Think of it with a tidally locked planet. It spins around once a year, but the sun never moves. Really there's 1.0027379 rotations per day. DanielLC (talk) 23:02, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

then it is rotating at 1 revolution per sidereal day, which could still be written as 1 rpd guess who (if you desire conversing | what i have done) 05:23, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

This is the most chaotic comic I've seen in a while. Part of me wants to keep notifications on to see what happens, and part of me wants to turn it all off and throw my phone in a lake Alcatraz ii (talk) 00:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Sheet with coordinates

I am making a sheet with the cordinates: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/133jGfOM6EVuEco4j2NumOAOv6pEealyZpbDoMkESXvs/edit?usp=sharing 108.162.216.81 01:31, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Should we start uploading different images? guess who (if you desire conversing | what i have done) 03:48, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

And should we create a new page for the images or put them all on the same page, like with umwelt. guess who (if you desire conversing | what i have done) 03:49, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Underneath the "Silence Notifications at a Cost" button, it says "Temporarily pause your notifications at the cost of notifying two random people". Does anyone know how for how long notifications stay silenced, or if there is a way to "unsilence" notifications? Also, when I click on the cats they just disappear. PDesbeginner (talk) 04:09, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

When I click on the cats I get a push notification with a cat fact.172.70.127.58 05:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Just like any other button, you can click it really fast by clicking the button and then holding "enter" or spacebar. guess who (if you desire conversing | what i have done) 04:35, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Someone should probably comment on "April 1st (observed)". I assume it's a reference to the fact that the comic is late? --Mushrooms (talk) 07:53, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Aye, as in: observed #2 172.71.26.43 08:02, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Is it morally wrong to spam the temporary silence button, just because I want to give other people notifications? Broseph (talk) 08:01, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Notifications are so 2024. Ever since Trump imposed the penguin tariffs, dmesg is where it's at. 162.158.91.126 09:07, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Finally yay!! Aprilfoolsupdate! (talk) 10:28, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Where have you been? ;) 172.71.178.160 10:39, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Good, we don't have to hear you whine like a baby anymore 172.70.100.202 18:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I got the file for "Cueball sitting at his desk, with a cat in the foreground near the point of view.", what do I do to add it :⁾ Toby (talk) 13:24, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

upload it if you can (with the exact file name from imgs.xkcd.com), or copy paste the link here and someone else with uploading rights can upload it. the upload button should be under tools in the left side, under related changes and above special changes. or, you can click this link 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 16:29, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

If you refresh the screen when a clickable cat is on it, it moves. 162.158.62.173 14:49, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Notification typos

I revieved two typos in two different notifications: "Or" is "r" in a message saying that it's confused whether is is fhe server or the client. "Ratio" is "ration" in the message "At the tone, the Golden Ratio will be equal to one half of 1 plus SQRT(5)". Does everyone get those typos? 172.70.34.16

I don't know if they're typos or part of the humor. Enjoy your golden ration.  :) 162.158.63.41 16:33, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I am not getting any notifications. I have three questions: 1) Does anyone know how long the "temporary silence" button lasts? 2) Does its effect last after you press the emergency stop button and re-subscribe to the nonsense? And 3) Is there just a problem with using Chrome? Thanks, Xnerkcd (talk) 17:49, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Update, the clickable cats are showing up but not doing anything

They just sit there unless you refresh the screen. Then they can change where they are.162.158.62.108 17:52, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

The problem's fixed; my computer had notifications disabled :) Xnerkcd (talk) 17:56, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Hi, I was able to get one of the currently placeholder images but just made this account to add it, looks like i'm to new to upload it. Is there a good way to get the file to the community? Namely it's the flooded one with the Shark Fin.--ItemCrafting (talk) 19:40, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Links to both the Shark https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/a592ca.png and the Foreground Cat https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/cb0653.png .--ItemCrafting (talk) 20:23, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Also Found: https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/3b9830.png Large Tree, Current version looks to be a broken link. --ItemCrafting (talk) 20:39, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

thanks guess who (if you desire conversing | what i have done) 21:20, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Here's the cat version of the tree: https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/8eeb55.png Rerere284 (talk) 01:10, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

April fools comic!!! LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO - me, hi (talk) 21:27, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Cat reference

The cat image itself and the concept of cats appearing after leaving the page idle for some time are a reference to Neko Atsume --162.158.103.82 21:52, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

I don't seem to ever get more than 2 clickable cats at a time.104.23.190.37 18:57, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Not working

The page doesn't work for me in Chrome on Google Plxel. I just get a image missing symbol. :( 172.71.98.245 22:54, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Same here -- the image loads initially and then real quickly it's replaced by the broken image. This happens using m.xkcd.com, but not the "desktop" site version. Chromebook with ChromeOS: Version 134.0.6998.183 (Official Build) (64-bit); also broken on Pixel 8 Pro, Android 15. Elizium23 (talk) 23:10, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

Push Notifications disabled in browser

My browser config doesn't allow sites to request push notifications, and the result is that once I reach the point of enabling them, the laptop immediately blows up. Is this worth mentioning in the summary? 162.158.164.163 23:37, 10 April 2025 (UTC)

did your laptop blow up or the one in the comic? --172.71.114.7 10:52, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Near the bottom of the current Transcript is the line, '[...something appeared then dissappeared...]'. I saw this too, and on the third time through the game, I did a screen recording. Two messages briefly appeared. [text and background in shades of red, all caps] "Error Sending Push Notifications" and [text in black, background grey, all caps] "OK, You Win. Setting Up Push Notifications. [2nd line] Just Remember, we tried to warn you." Nekoninda (talk)Nekoninda

My word is "battery", I'm sure there are also lots of people who chose "horse" or "staple". Correct? --172.69.68.91 14:27, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Bird is the word, man.104.23.190.37 18:57, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

I was going to try "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch", but accidentally submitted a blank word (it looks like others have too... well, the second part of my situation, I'm still not sure if the first bit even would have been accepted/enterable, never mind how many others would have tried it). 172.68.205.134 21:12, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

cat --me, hi (talk) 00:37, 12 April 2025 (UTC)

Mobile / Desktop behaviour depends on browser

I'm on Firefox for Android, and I got the signup behaviour described for the desktop version (no adfing to home screen; asks for Notification permission.) 172.71.95.57 08:17, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

I made a phone background using an image from this one! https://file.garden/ZXYYgWMYuz15fq8l/export202504102005490721.png JokinglyEvil (talk) 11:08, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

Picture list

Pictures are prefixed by https://xkcd.com/3074/marconi/static/??????.png, from the list :

• Misc : static/ead1d8.png static/59b30d.png static/388e5b.png
• Bkground : static/4ad340.png static/3b9830.png static/2c83c1.png static/9e4fd6.png static/9d658f.png static/83824a.png static/220211.png static/a0314e.png static/e2eca2.png static/d56a28.png static/20b757.png static/226279.png static/1f2fee.png static/0bfd44.png static/20be4a.png static/cb0653.png static/313380.png static/31a492.png static/11a4b5.png static/a592ca.png static/1450b1.png static/e0f706.png static/fa52d2.png static/69af58.png static/a7d30d.png static/3e33fd.png static/da85bd.png static/303e90.png static/6f48dd.png static/342f4d.png
• Messages: static/fc9dfd.png static/8d9c55.png static/aa973f.png static/923036.png static/9141a2.png static/5f9f66.png static/6af293.png static/935279.png static/b286f5.png static/67da67.png static/b9fc1b.png static/7abdee.png static/c2e227.png static/8bdac7.png static/7e02cf.png static/b07329.png static/c6de0e.png static/a464c9.png static/7f6e55.png static/a96735.png static/ff6357.png static/876854.png static/cb5124.png static/2235f1.png static/e01a73.png static/a75f92.png static/f41766.png static/456b99.png static/d3e6db.png static/da4d83.png static/f3de11.png static/867baf.png static/6b2d69.png static/2705b9.png static/bedb72.png static/f9b33d.png static/3e269d.png static/b034f4.png static/eea7ff.png static/e83fd7.png static/8ebf3f.png static/c6ac3d.png static/a9779a.png static/eddb3b.png

There is another list with the same pictures but twice as large (same order) :

"static/0890d4.png static/198d53.png static/bb9aa1.png static/4ad340.png static/cbe58c.png static/b5a217.png static/618dcc.png static/323351.png static/17d10b.png static/6c8053.png static/0690ec.png static/8576c0.png static/2b79e1.png static/a80810.png static/41143b.png static/8eeb55.png static/99bb67.png static/b84fdf.png static/f0de4f.png static/b0cec1.png static/a4158d.png static/dbc071.png static/c969b2.png static/f3b793.png static/0cd47d.png static/8a5b95.png static/2a2199.png static/63ed1d.png static/2a67b6.png static/7ec02f.png static/8e981d.png static/77a1d5.png static/e49d32.png static/fe60e1.png static/dd3fd2.png static/2b8643.png static/017e3a.png static/e46fe0.png static/6ad951.png static/ef2e76.png static/7d6018.png static/905794.png static/52870c.png static/a17724.png static/aa18ad.png static/1094f5.png static/39bffe.png static/8635c4.png static/d63451.png static/f2c3df.png static/5fa4ed.png static/00050e.png static/026b2f.png static/bcd4f8.png static/f777a4.png static/713981.png static/ed794b.png static/b3696b.png static/a2fc4c.png static/f468fd.png static/bc9195.png static/2ef6f1.png static/1682f4.png static/6a6479.png static/9dd25c.png static/a2e92d.png static/442a18.png static/2139a1.png static/5378fa.png static/8edfa4.png static/25c931.png static/91b6d9.png static/eb016f.png static/519d53.png static/554084.png static/301dc6.png static/4bfe91.png static/7b89ac.png" -- -- Biem (talk) 14:59, 11 April 2025 (UTC) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

Hey Biem, could you perhaps use * to make your message into a list? Thanks. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 15:08, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

I certainly could, but it would take page space with no added value... Biem (talk) 15:54, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

It would (in my humble opinion) make it more readable and easier to copy paste into a url. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 22:01, 11 April 2025 (UTC)

I enabled notifications, and no more appeared. Maybe it just doesn't work with my browser? Cats keep appearing, but that's all. 162.158.212.132 16:39, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

Came back a while later and the chair was floating, so stuff is happening, but I don't know why it's not saying anything. I hope I don't just have browser notifications shut off completely... 162.158.137.163 20:54, 14 April 2025 (UTC)