Fuck, I love ntfy, it's one of the best self hosted push notification systems I've used. It has been flawless so far.
Don't like this.
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
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"but reviewed and heavily tested over 2-3 weeks by me. I created comparison documents, went through all queries multiple times and reviewed the logic over and over again. I also did load tests and manual regression tests, which took lots of evenings."
This is the way.
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I just set up a ntfy server for Unified Push earlier this week to use with Matrix. Now I have to turn around and immediately replace it...
Same here. Literally just set it up and now this.
I hope the author will roll this back or someone else makes a fork. I don't want to immediately switch technology to XMPP/Matrix/... and have to do it all over again.
You could, in the meantime, simply not upgrade to the version that uses AI.
Since, from what I'm seeing around, people are having issues looking for an alternative.
That's concerning. If it was "I generated a function with an LLM and reviewed it myself" I'd be much less concerned, but 14k added lines and 10k removed lines is crazy. We already know that LLMs don't generate up to scratch code quality...
I won't use PostgreSQL with ntfy, and keep an eye on it to see if they continue down this path for other parts of ntfy. If so I'll have to switch to another UP provider.
If you use ntfy mainly as a Unified Push distributor on Android, then I highly recommend switching to a XMPP client that can do the same.
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Oh ffs..
Thanks for the heads-up
I'll embrace the inevitable fork.
Uovote and comment on: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy/issues/1645
Please add this to the post.
NOOOOOOOOO
I switched to Gotify when I ran into an issue where ntfy would delete old api tokens when creating more than 20. Only thing missing in Gotify is UniversalPush, other than that it feels actually more solid than ntfy to me.
I've been meaning to put something like this in my setup for a while, but definitely not this now! List of alternatives in the Custom Communication section at awesome selfhosted