I used to use discourse://open on my iOS device to cause DiscourseHub to open, but it no longer works or even highlights as a link in a plaintext email like it used to. Does this URL scheme no longer work? Is there something new I can try? I attempted discoursehub://open and that doesn’t seem to work either right now (1.8.2).

a quick dip into the source code reveals: js/site_manager.js fe77eff02 import JSEncrypt from './../lib/jsencrypt'; import randomBytes from './../lib/random-bytes'; const {DiscourseKeyboardShortcuts} = NativeModules; class SiteManager { constructor() { this._subscribers = []; this.sites = []; this.activeSite = null; this.urlScheme = 'discourse://auth_redirect'; this.load(); this.firstFetch = new Date(); this.lastFetch = new Date(); this.fetchCount = 0; AsyncStorage.getItem('@Discourse.lastRefresh').then(date => { if (date) { this.lastRefresh = new Date(date); Which appears to open the Hub on iOS

I guess it might be an issue with iOS Mail rather than the app itself. I have a system set to send me a list of links to check daily, and one of the things I want to do at least once a day is check the Discourse app. discourse://open in the plaintext email used to get highlighted as a link and open DiscourseHub when I tap it, but sometime fairly recently (not sure exactly when) the URL in the email stopped displaying as a link. So it might be an iOS Mail thing, but I’m not sure how it knows that URL-ish strings to display as links in plaintext email. Is it because discourse:// needs to be registered by the app as a legitimate scheme? When I send an HTML message with a link to discourse://open I can tap it in iOS and get directed to the app, but not when that URL scheme is plaintext.

Yes, I see that a manually-written HTML link brings up the app with that URL. But iOS Mail no longer turns that URL in a plaintext email into a tappable link. Does the app need to register the URL scheme with the OS somehow? Has that changed?

Yes, I’ve had it installed for a long time. I’m not sure what changed for the link to stop appearing, which happened fairly recently.

I just uninstalled & reinstalled the iOS app, and it’s still not creating a link in Mail.

Hmm… yeah, not sure I can help further, seems like an iOS/Mail issue. Maybe you can send a proper html link instead?

Is creating a mobile app for your community an option? If so you could add universal link support.

Unfortunately, that would involve a significant rework of my system that emails me lists of links. It’s just a jumble of bash, cron, and text files at this point.

I’m not that into it, and it’s technically not even my community. I was just hoping to get discourse://open to work again the way it used to, but it seems like that feature/functionality is gone now.

iOS URL scheme?

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pmusaraj (Penar Musaraj) May 18, 2022, 2:14pm 5

Yes, the DiscourseHub app registers that custom url scheme. Do you have DiscourseHub installed? If not, can you install and see if then those URLs are turned into links?

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