Discourse 现在作为 iOS 的 PWA 运作

It’s been a long time coming, but finally Discourse can be used as a pwa in iOS devices.

This is now possible thanks to many changes over the years, some from Apple and lots from us.

Both meta.discourse.org and review.discourse.org have all features enabled, so please give it a go:

After that you get a nice icon for the Discourse instance on your home screen. After clicking on it you will have:

  • A dedicated “application” in iOS alt-tab overview
  • A full screen experience without the Safari UI
  • The ability to browse previously visited content while offline
  • Support for push notifications

We plan to enable this by default in the coming days. This is now enabled by default :tada:

FAQ

Why do I have to login again in the PWA?

Because the PWA instance doesn’t share cookies with main Safari on iOS

Does the PWA support push notifications?

Yes

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Very very nice :+1: :+1:

Is there something similar for Android devices?

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It is available on Android for over four years now.

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Thank god! Apple has been on a roll recently! I will probably be bugging anybody who has a Discourse forum.

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No need to bug the admins. As said in the OP we will switch this to default if it works well.

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This is now enabled by default :tada:

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Thanks for your work on this.

If push notifications are supported by Discourse PWAs in future, this will kill off one of the prime advantages of Facebook Groups. Can’t wait for this to arrive, although it’s a technically significant undertaking so I don’t expect it any time soon.

I noticed a very minor issue with the new PWA on my instance. When clicking a link that navigates to another iPhone app eg a Twitter onebox, the “inter-app” back button shows “Untitled” as opposed to the name of my forum:

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This would be quite simple to do on the Discourse side, as we implement the web standard. The ball is in the Apple court, as they have the only browser who doesn’t implement it while prohibiting competing browsers on their iOS devices.

That’s weird. But as we set title in both the .webmanifest and in our main document, there is nothing we can do. It’s a bug on Apple implementation.

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iOS 13.5 fixes one annoying bug when multi-tasking into PWAs :tada:

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Someone’s written a short article about PWA’s and iOS 14:

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iOS in a nutshell

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When it comes to PWAs? :sweat_smile:

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Hello,

There is a problem with the PWA’s when multitasking. It freezes most of the time. Not just my forum but it’s repro on Meta’s PWA also. This bug appear on both platform (iOS, Android) but mostly iOS. Is that possible to fix this somehow? Thank you :slightly_smiling_face:

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The freezing also occurs on my iOS devices. Are there any plans to fix it?

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@Falco 视频似乎已设为私有,你还有吗?:slight_smile: 谢谢!

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我认为需要根据以下内容更新 OP:

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说它支持通知会产生误导。自从我启用通知以来,我还没有收到过一个。

抓得好,已更新。

我们团队有多人日常使用它,在推送通知方面没有任何问题。在我的 iPad 上也一直有效。

我建议你开一个 Bug 主题,详细说明你在 iOS PWA 上的 Meta 上启用推送时具体发生了什么,如果你使用的是最新的稳定版操作系统,如果你没有冲突的 Hub 安装等。

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目前,我使用的是最新的 17 开发者测试版。但是,这并没有真正起到作用。在我之前使用的每一个 16 RC 版本上,仍然没有推送通知,也没有安装 Hub 应用程序。等我有时间的时候,我会提交一个报告。

而在 17.4 版本中,至少在欧洲将结束这种情况。

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