IMO on the latest version with chat enabled and a small (iphone 12 mini) the experience leaves a lot to be desired. I’d love to see a single react native app emerge, along with some kind of documentation for OSS plugin developers to build their own react native UIs to support instances that use the app.
Since upgrading to iOS 18, I’ve been having trouble with the app. Initially, I was able to reconnect to my community by reinstalling the app and logging in again, but after a few hours, it disconnected. Now, the app no longer accepts my usual username and password, though I can still log in through the web, so it’s not a password issue.
It seems like a new security setting in iOS might be blocking access. Is anyone else facing this issue? Any ideas for a fix?
After further testing, I’ve found that the issue seems to be isolated to our community. I’m unable to replicate the problem when connecting to Discourse Meta.
Every time I trying logging in I get this pop up message
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Any chance to be able to hide the description of each forum?
Reason is that I already know what they are so would rather fit more on screen.
Just the icon, title, URL would be enough.
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I like this suggestion. At some point, I was playing around with a beta version of the app where a user setting would toggle the description on/off. Other features became more pressing, so I pushed that branch aside… but this makes a lot of sense as a next change to make in the app. Thanks!
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This is now implemented and coming soon (pending Apple review).
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Looking good (just realised I was still on TestFlight build)
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I find the changing of row heights quite annoying. It means that—for any row other than the top row—the rows themselves and UI elements within are never in the same place twice. Plus, changes in more than one row mean the movement multiplies the further down the screen you go.
So, a request for some style tweaks to achieve:
- consistent row height
- more forum rows per screen
Suggestions for how:
- move totals for new posts etc into badges on the right like we get for DMs and watched topics. I’m imagining some kind of minimal table layout on the right of each forum row?
Also, one more:
- allow switch off the Sites / Hot Topics tabs, I never use it and would prefer to fit an extra forum row on screen
Thanks for your consideration! 
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Any thoughts on the above?
I’ve now got enough forums that they extend to more than one screen so this problem is compounded.
Witness:
Versus:
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Are you referring to some rows being taller due to having an unread or new link and others don’t?
That’s unavoidable at the moment. The alternative would be to make every row reserve space for those links, even if they’re not there, which would result in empty white space.
Moving them into badges on the right would make the tap space too small imo, and there’s no clear symbol to indicate unread nor new, so we have to rely on text.
That’s a reasonable ask imo. We don’t have any settings at the moment, but it would be good candidate if we ever start with them.
Appreciated your thoughts!
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Yes, and the compounded effect of whether those are there changing the layout drastically.
White space is not necessarily bad. At least then things would always appear in the same place, which would ease cognitive load quite substantially. If things appear in the same place you don’t have to think, if the layout changes every time you need to process the whole thing from scratch every time.
Respectfully, I disagree. The tap area is already frequently too small as it changes based on its content (because it is a link with variable text, rather than a button with a fixed size).
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We have a settings screen for the app on Android only. On iOS, I have been hesitating to add the screen for only this one feature. However, we can add it if we have two or more options. For example, we could have these two:
- show Hot Topics in Home screen
- show site URLs in Home Screen
By default these two would be checked (i.e. no change in behaviour for users). When unchecked, the Home Screen would be cleaner, without the Sites / Hot Topics tabs and without the URL of each community below its name. This should also result in consistent heights for each row (given the logo height).
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I like your style. Sign me up 
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@gingerbeardman we have a new beta ready on TestFlight with a partial fix for your request. Here is the link: Join the Discourse Hub beta - TestFlight - Apple
I will explain here why it is a partial fix. The beta build includes a solution only for the layout changes bit, not the Hot topics bit. For the layout changes, I opted to only show the URL of a site row if that row does not have anything under new/unread. That is, the layout should be this now:
Notice that the row height will be consistent for the vast majority of cases (there are exceptions for sites with many group inboxes). With this solution, there is no need for a setting and that affected my thinking about the Hot topics toggle, too. Since there is only one setting needed, I felt quite uneasy about adding a screen with just one setting. So for now, there is no support to disable the “Sites / Hot topics” bar, sorry!
Also note that this beta release (version 2.1.0, build 621) also includes:
- an easier gesture to dismiss a site by swiping top down when the user is at the top of the viewport
- a bug fix for top padding on new iPhone 17 devices
- under-the-hood upgrades to React Native
- better icons for sites with no logo (or broken logos)
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TestFlight alerted me to the beta earlier so I installed it immediately! I think it’s a good compromise solution, I’ll continue to live with it for a while. Cheers! Thanks for your work on it.
I just upgraded from iPhone XS to iPhone 16 Pro, but am staying clear of iOS 26 for now.
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There a slight change in height on some rows, those without any totals are less tall, just before the domain name appears. Maybe having a placeholder of a space character (rather than nothing) would solve?
And the highlight row has a border all around which is quite visible in dark mode, particularly on the left edge. Maybe using only a bottom border would improve things?
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Thank you, that’s very helpful! New beta is out with fixes for both issues.
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Fixes are great.
I just migrated from iPhone XS to 16 Pro (not quite latest as I’m avoiding iOS 26) and Discourse Hub list of forums is wrong. It’s showing forums I used to have added but have since removed.
How best to resolve? (I just added them all again, but I’m curious what old data it was using)
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Hmm interesting! I am guessing the OS migrated some cached data over?
We explicitly don’t use iCloud storage in the app, that would be one way to fix it but so far we haven’t had a strong enough need to support that (it would also add syncing of sites across devices).
No big deal just curious that there’s old and new data somewhere. TestFlight vs App Store perhaps?
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The forums that were present after migration had got into a state where they were showing “new” count but there were no new posts on that forum. I had to log out and back in to fix.
BTW I migrated with phone to phone “quick setup” no icloud involved.
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