I understand that self-hosted Discourse instances do not get push notifications through the mobile app. However from reading through the meta topic about the app, it looks like notifications should still work using iOS’s background fetch (albeit a bit delayed). This doesn’t seem to work for my foru…

Actually - don’t worry. I found it “Fig for Discourse”

Hi all, sorry to bother. Just wanted to check the status of iOS push-notifications issue for self-hosted forums. Been a while since the last post here. Anything new or is it still not possible? Thanks!

There have not been any changes recently to add more support for self-hosted push notifications to our iOS app. However, the app does have a background job that is supposed to run every half hour or so and it is supposed to pull in push notifications. This uses a background fetch service from the OS…

@pmusaraj Thanks a lot for the update!

@pmusaraj nothing new on this front?

Sorry but self-hosted push notifications would mean you have to register an account with Apple. Discourse can not handle data of forums we do not host. No news here.

Thanks Sam. When you say register an act with apple, how would I do that as it’s not a dev act for an app but specifically a website using the discourse app. Is that possible??

You would have to Fork Discourse Hub Register a dev account with apple Repackage as a standalone app for your site Publish to the app store Build infra to handle the push notifications I am afraid there is no easy solution here, on Android - Google provide a public proxy. Apple do not do that.

What infra has to be built? I thought they were either handled by the discourse server itself or OneSignal (I can’t remember which).

We handle notifications for our customer on dedicated infrastructure we host. The notifications contain data we are allowed to handle, since we host the customers.

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sam (Sam Saffron) Juin 1, 2021, 6:57 40

Désolé, mais les notifications push en auto-hébergement impliqueraient que vous deviez créer un compte chez Apple. Discourse ne peut pas gérer les données de forums que nous n’hébergeons pas.

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