If you’ve visited any of the 9to5 sites in Safari on OS X 10.9 Mavericks or 10.10 Yosemite since early 2014, you may have opted into website push notifications. Powered by PushUp Notifications, which integrates closely with WordPress, 9to5mac alone has over 400,000 subscribers receiving breaking Apple news the moment a hot story is published. On a busy news day, we’re delivering over 2 million unique notifications.
Unfortunately, the underlying Safari Push Notifications service on Apple’s end has some bugs on OS X 10.10 Yosemite. PushUp is reporting that many Yosemite users intermittently lose connectivity to APNS on a per site basis (the bug does not present in Mavericks). The bug has been reported to Apple, and appears to be confirmed by a few sources. The beta builds of 10.10.1 highlight Notification Center as an area of focus, although a fix is not definitively confirmed yet.
In the mean time, if you haven’t seen any 9to5 notifications for a while, and you’re already subscribed, there’s an easy fix.
Under Safari Preferences, open the Notifications tab. Find 9to5mac under the list of websites, and flip the toggle from “Allow” to “Deny”, and then back to “Allow.” That’s it.
If you still don’t see any notifications over the course of the next day, instead remove 9to5mac from the list of websites, and load any two pages on our site; the opt in dialog box will appear on the second page view. This also clears the local cache, so you’ll be sure to see our latest push icon.
We’ll let you know if and when the bug is confirmed fix.
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Honestly this site has felt like crap since you guys started putting ads at the bottom of the screen. Like seriously take them off.
Where would you like the ads?
I’m honestly fine with almost any ad as long as it’s part of the actual webpage and you can scroll past them.
Don’t mean to hate. But I seriously noticed that I don’t use the site as much because I conscupcake think that I don’t wanna use this site anymore cus it feels like buzzfeed or something.
Also maybe just making the X button bigger would change my mind. Idk what others think
Please don’t listen to him. The ads are perfectly fine. And understandable. The x is perfect. Half the time I don’t click it off. You have to have ads since we don’t pay for a subscription. Hell, even magazines that you pay for have half the book be ads.
What I want to see is videos. The Verge review videos are amazing. Only reason I visit that site. I have almost completely stopped visiting Endgadget due to them not doing video reviews on their products. I understand that you guys aren’t big enough to get review units, but the items you guys review, please oh please do video reviews.
You guys should release a similar article on Apple’s iPhone 6/iOS 8 car bluetooth issues, with all the “known” fixes. I still can’t have my Subaru’s bluetooth automatically connect to my iPhone after updating to iOS 8 – pretty shocked that Apple hasn’t completely fixed this by now.
I haven’t had any issues with Push Notification with any sites. Maybe I’m lucky?
The bug doesn’t seem to effect everyone running Yosemite – so yes. :-)
I’ve tried everything possible, including deleting the library, plist, removing all notifications and reinstalling them. Nothing seems to work. By the way, the problem actually started when I was on Mavericks.