iOS Mobile App Notifications

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#39

@pmusaraj nothing new on this front?

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#40

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.

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#41

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

#42

You would have to

  1. Fork Discourse Hub
  2. Register a dev account with apple
  3. Repackage as a standalone app for your site
  4. Publish to the app store
  5. 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.

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#43

What infra has to be built? I thought they were either handled by the discourse server itself or OneSignal (I canā€™t remember which).

#44

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.

#46

Sorry. Was thinking this was a different thread (this one: Whitelisted Discourse app with Push Notifications via OneSignal)

Edit: itā€™s probably worth noting that the thread I linked has ostensibly solved all of those problems. However, Iā€™ve never done it myself.

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#47

Please consider offering it as a paid service.
There are use cases where notifications are desired, while most of the discussion content (except for the data in the notification) should still remain on private servers.

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#48

We do offer it as a paid service, sign up for our hosting at https://discourse.org/buy

#49

+1: using your hosting is not an option, our Discourse-based intranet has to be on premise on our servers. But we would like to ā€œoutsourceā€ the notifications.

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#50

I wonder what your data protection officers / legal people think of that. Either they want to keep everything in house, or it does not matter. But we hardly see both at the same time.

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#51

Good news for notifications on self-hosted :grinning:

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iOS push badly needed, but Discourse.org hosting is too expensive
#52

Very good news indeed! Thank you for sharing that with us here :bowing_man: cc @pmusaraj @Falco

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#53
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#54

From what I understand, it wonā€™t work with Discourse. Have I gotten my hopes up over nothing? :cry:

#55

Itā€™s too soon to say. Anything might or might not be allowed by the time 2023 rolls around.

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#56

The (presumed) lack of WKWebView support only implies it wonā€™t work with Discourse Hub.
But if iOS gets push notifications support for web apps and websites then who needs an app anyway?

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#57

The application serves as a nice hub for all of the Discourse communities you actively browse.

Push notification support for web apps will be a game changer though. :partying_face:

iOS 16 web push notifications in 2023
#58

Fair point, I do however enjoy the ability in DiscourseHub to quick switch between different Disocurse sitesā€¦but maybe that could be built into a website easily or even within Discourse.

iOS 16 web push notifications in 2023
#59

Federation support?

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