iOS Mobile App Notifications

[david (David Taylor)]

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OneSignal - Multi-platform Push Notification Service

Whitelisted Discourse app with Push Notifications via OneSignal

Following up on the discussion here, I have successfully set up a fork of the official Discourse app that can send push notifications via the OneSignal API. There are two parts to this: discourse-onesignal - a Discourse plugin that sends Push Notifications to OneSignal’s REST API and a Discourse Mobile Single Site App built similarly to the official Discourse Mobile app (using React Native), but using OneSignal for notifications and a simplified interface to suit the needs of a single app. I…

For people who don’t have the resources to build their own app, discourse-chat-integration provides solutions for real-time group notifications:

Chatroom Integration Plugin (discourse-chat-integration)

Summary: Integrate your chat system of choice with Discourse GitHub: https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration Install: Follow the plugin installation guide. Features Continuing from Common event system for chatrooms discourse-chat-integration is the product of my Google Summer of Code project with Discourse. It allows sending notifications about new Discourse posts to ‘group chats’ on a number of instant messaging platforms. It is based on, and aims to…

On my own self-hosted forum, we use telegram to provide push notifications to users on mobile devices:

Telegram Notifications Plugin (discourse-telegram-notifications)

Discourse Telegram Notifications Plugin This plugin allows users to receive their notifications via a Telegram bot, allowing them to turn off email notifications and still keep up-to-date. You can “like” posts, and respond to them via the bot. Here’s a quick demo video: Before Starting Your forum must be using HTTPS, and have force_https turned on Your forum must be accessible to the internet, not only an internal network (in development, give ngrok a try). Gettin…