A Social Mobile & Desktop Client for Communities

iOS, Android, Foldable & Tablet all done and now Apple desktop is done.
App running on Mac OS Sequoia 15, with 90% of discourse web functionality.

Short demo video before I got rate limited for doing things too quickly :frowning: will need to make adjustments :thinking:


“Community Alerts” are for cross forum monitoring once a secure login session has happened on a user device, users can see a count of how many pending notifications they have on other forums.

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Are you making this available for download anywhere? looking for feedback?

I can put it on testflight if the interest is there. But just posted to get feedback really, trying to gauge what discourse community see as needed.

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Just curious, what are the advantages of the desktop approach compared to a browser?

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Sidebar can be inverted and videos can play in post, full app view, or added to cinema widget

This is cinema widget view

This is my native composer column’d right

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This was curated to match my users requests, PWA is fine for most and browser is as well, but I wanted an option that gave ease and flexibility and control for posting, replying, controlled layout, smart caching, dynamic switching, multi forum support without different tabs or various PWAs and offline browsing.

My edge case and rationale may not fit all but it fits me and maybe a few more. I have a lot more features that I have posted here. Here’s an example of the Forum Explorer, originally I designed this to create sub forums per island in my region but have been testing against every forum out there.

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This is a dev build running but it’s 5x faster on live app. Tablet 7x faster.

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I hate to say it, I hadn’t considered the end-users in this equation, only my own usability.

Happy users = happy community manager :smiley:

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Yes, I’ve tried to tackle a lot of niche userbase from gamer/entertainment to the business and entrepreneurs. Whereas they’ll have desktop widgets in app that connect to other applications they use daily while using discourse.

@Falco This doesn’t showcase fully what I’ve done but you can get a general idea.


The bridge; connecting audio of a few to many, with optional integration to discourse events.

Sadly this won’t be multi-forum capable and only single forum, as there’s too much legal work to be done to offer such. But the bridge will keep discourse rate limits down as a central focus.

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I’ve taken a lot of thought about legal, security and compliance of running a multi forum app client. The cumulation of 9 months of review, audit and testing.

Communities who are selfhosted will have the ability to connect opt-in and opt-out in seconds, with a few perks for enlisting :grinning_face:

For the managed hosted discourse group forums, whereas third-party plugins are not supported I also built the same process via a secure web channel, with opt-in, opt-out and also with block, if you wish to disable front-end users to never list your forum community in the app, you can do so without filing a DMCA notice.

What does Discourse look like as a native app ?

DemoPreview

A custom built composer like no other.

#StayTuned

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