The Facebook UI is a crowded, noisy mess. (Test: where is FB Group search? You have 5 seconds ;)) Coming back to my Discourse instances is like breathing fresh country air in comparison.
But I agree, I’m facing significant competition for users. One’s that DO come over complain about there being ‘too many’ posters on the equivalent FB group and ‘how nice it is to have a smaller community’ …. nice problem to have? … ho hum …
I really hope Apple announces proper support for iOS Push Notifications from Web @ WWDC aka iOS 12 … it’s not like they are far off now.
(btw, here’s a great blog post on how far they’ve got with support for Progressive Web Apps)