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:

Discourse Chat Integration Plugin

Chat Integration is for using an external chat system together with Discourse — you may be looking for Discourse Chat which adds Chat functionality directly to Discourse. Summary Discourse Chat Integration allows you to integrate your chat system of choice with Discourse. Repository Link https://github.com/discourse/discourse-chat-integration Install Guide How to install plugins in Discourse Features discours…

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). Getti…