Beta testing the iOS mobile app

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Invites are out!! :mailbox:

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I cleaned up the SSO login issues per:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/e6fcaadd456c1ac02c8d32e4e968577e683f8e65

In particular these now work as expected

  • Connect → Login via google → authorize
  • Connect → Login via sso → authorize
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If you’re in need of more beta users, I’d like to try it out.

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Looks excellent so far and great to see the authorisation was picked up seamlessly from Safari. Some minor points of feedback:

  • when authorising a forum, I’m returned to the forum list with the “authorise” button visible and enabled, and no progress indicator to show that I need to wait for authorisation

  • I don’t get push notifications from either of the two forums I’m following (meta and se23.life). I know this may be unavailable for my own forum, but wondered if I should see them from meta?

  • may look more consistent with the platform if it’s a “+” icon rather than “add” text

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Did you get this push notification?

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I did, and it was splendid!

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Really loving this app, great work.

Using it leaves me wanting more speed.

Would it be possible to pre-load the mobile sites that I have connected so that clicking on a site from the list loads more quickly?

I’d also like a way to switch between the sites in the browser without closing the window and forcing me to reload the whole app again next time I access that site.

One idea would be to implement a swipe gesture on the browser that switches between the connected sites.

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I got a PN as well (on another meta topic) which was great. But when clicking on it, I was taken to the app’s home screen. Is that the current behaviour?

I second the wish to have PNs working for self-hosted sites, eventually.

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It should take you to the actual topic, what iOS are you on?

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Huh, this one did! Great! (On ios 9)

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@pmusaraj perhaps it was an issue with @mention, did this work properly ?

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Just to make things clear, does this work for every install of Discourse? Self-hosted and hosted installs alike? Does it require a particular version of the software?

I too would love an invitation, but only if it works for self-hosted.

Is this thread the sole place to give feeback?

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Not sure if you still accept beta tester for the iOS app, but if so, I’d be happy to give it a try. :slight_smile:

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This worked too. So not entirely sure what didn’t work the first time but will keep an eye on it.

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Hi Sam

This sounds fantastic and really promising. Please could you invite me to the beta testing?

Thanks
Charlotte

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The app itself works fine on self hosted installs. You just add your site by URL. What’s exclusive for our customers, is push notifications.

However this is a very early beta period, so Sam is really doing a lot of ground work that made the entire product better, like user read only api, which is a great thing to have, regardless of the app.

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That’s perfectly clear and I understand the limitations. Great work!

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Would love a beta invite, please msg me for my apple ID email. Thanks!

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Hello :slight_smile:

I’m Adrien from the Infinite Flight community. I’m a regular user there and I love to interact with other users there. I would love to help you testing your awesome looking iOS mobile app on my iPhone 5S and iPad Mini 2 (which I hope to renew soon) by giving you detailed feedback. I got experience with developing and I understand how important it is to give accurate feedback. I suppose you need my mail address, but don’t worry, I will PM it if needed.

Thanks in advance,
Adrien

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There’s been some talk about this in the Android topic:

So in short, we’re looking into it :wink: This might only be possible on Android though.

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