Last year I created a discourse forum at knysnayachtowners.org and it was welcomed by some, but many users continued to use the WhatsApp group that has been around for years. I can understand that, as they get immediate responses from other owners.
I am trying to see if an alternative would be to use the Discourse app on their phones and utilize the chat feature. However, when I post something to the General chat channel, I see that the chat icon in the app gets a blue dot, but there’s no other notification. That isn’t sufficient in my opinion. People need/want that popup notification that you get on WhatsApp.
Is there something that I’m missing, or is that just how it works? Do people have other suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide.
What notification do you expect?
You can enable push notifications for all activity in the settings of each channel. However, I am not sure if you can change the default for that or if every user would have to do it on every channel.
I was looking for functionality similar to what WhatsApp provides, which is a push notification when a new message comes in. I don’t want to have to tell each user how to configure this.
