I understand that self-hosted Discourse instances do not get push notifications through the mobile app. However from reading through the meta topic about the app, it looks like notifications should still work using iOS’s background fetch (albeit a bit delayed). This doesn’t seem to work for my forum, and I’m not sure how to go about figuring out what’s wrong. Could it be because my forum is login-only? Is there any way to get logs from the app? Push notifications for meta are working fine

Sorry I need a break from this topic.

I’m an admin of a new Discourse forum running on Digital Ocean. All’s working well so far as we prep to open our doors in a month or so. The Discourse IOS app is working but seemingly with some quirks. And we just noticed the phrase in the App store description: “for officially hosted discourse forums” What should I tell my users to expect with their use of the Apps, both Android and IOS?

Primarily the native notification issue, other than that it will work as expected.

@codinghorror Is there any way to pay for iOS push notification functionality witha self hosted forum?

If it’s a DO discourse droplet?

That is “self hosted” in this context.

Hey @jtbayly I recently published a plugin for pushover that allows a user to sign up for push notifications over Pushover. Other push services could probably be added with not too much difficulty. Maybe this can help scratch your itch here. [image] Pushover notifications Plugin Plugin for integrating Pushover notifications. https://github.com/featheredtoast/discourse-pushover-notifications This allows notifications to be sent over Pushover, which grants push-notification support for iOS, through the 3rd party app. Configuration Once installed, you will need an Application API token. Create a New Application and fill out the form. After you created the application, copy the resulting API token to the Discourse admin plugin pages, and enable the plugin. All users wi…

Thanks for sharing that here. I had totally missed it.

have you found a successful path to receiving notifications while self hosting? if so, will you save me the trial and error by sharing your experiential knowledge? p please.

iOS Mobile App Notifications

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) August 8, 2018, 3:40am 27

No, this is not possible. You’d need to use a paid Discourse specific hosting plan, either here or elsewhere.

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