Email notifications, the Discourse App, and PushOver

After running a lot of experiments, here’s what I have determined:

  • Email notifications work as described and expected
  • You have to set a notification level (i.e. Watching, Tracking, etc) to have the Discourse app display that activity has taken place
  • The iOS app occasionally generates a push notification, but most of the time doesn’t
  • The iOS app occasionally displays that activity has taken place by changing it’s icon
  • The iOS app doesn’t seem to do background refresh (even though allowed) and running. I have to open the app to get it to update.
  • PushOver doesn’t seem to do anything