nsuchy
(Nathaniel Suchy)
November 11, 2017, 4:54am
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So I have two questions about the Discourse App.
At some point will the app work like an app and not just a web browser list?
Currently only Discourse hosted forums get notifications, I run a community that’s very privacy sensitive and my users don’t want big hosts / business having access to user data - we use a small host Frantech and don’t use Cloudflare / any big providers to handle user information. Any way that could change? Maybe offer it as a small service at low rate?
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No, we have no plans to offer Google Play / Apple App Store paid notifications as a service. Also no to your point one, the app is a wrapper around the website that gives “native” notifications and multi-site aggregation services. It is what it is.
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teezett
(Sven)
June 16, 2020, 10:59pm
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Would it be possible to register a self hosted discourse server at google play store for notifications?
How was this done for this discourse server?
On Android you can already get notifications see: Android live notifications are now in core!
iOS is a different story, you’d still need your own app.
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teezett
(Sven)
June 17, 2020, 1:08am
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No, @awesomerobot , it does not work in the PWA in Android:
There is a lot of confusion here in this topic. Let’s start over:
Discourse Hub App
Using discourse.org hosting: You can receive push notification when you add the hosted site to the Discourse Hub app, be it Android or iOS.
Not using discourse.org hosting: You won’t get push notification from the Discourse Hub app.
Android Google Chrome
You can enable push notification from the browser. You will be prompted to do so in a banner after posting your first reply and having TL1. You c…
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jomaxro
(Joshua Rosenfeld)
June 17, 2020, 1:30am
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The Discourse Hub app is not a PWA. Push notifications work via PWAs for all sites, regardless of if you’re hosted by us or not.
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teezett
(Sven)
June 20, 2020, 4:17pm
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Regardless if the app is a PWA or not, how can i get it work with a self hosted installation of discourse?
Stephen
(Stephen)
June 21, 2020, 2:25am
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Self hosted PWAs already offer notifications on Android.
They won’t work with iOS until Apple allows native notifications.
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teezett
(Sven)
June 21, 2020, 8:29pm
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@Stephen the Notifications are offered in the Android App but it is not working
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Stephen
(Stephen)
June 21, 2020, 10:38pm
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Ok, but we’re not talking about the android app.
A PWA is when you add a site to your homescreen. If the site is correctly configured then notifications will work.
If you’re using DiscourseHub then notifications will not work unless you are a hosted customer.
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