Notifications via Facebook

[david (David Taylor)]

@MakaryGo

But we have to be realistic: ToS of this API are made exactly to stop any other social and discussion channels from using the platform.

Sadly I suspect you’re right about this.

Aside from the discourse-chat-integration plugin, I really like the idea of sending ‘actual’ facebook notifications from Discourse, something that was touched on here:

[PAID] Push Discourse notifications into Facebook Notifications

(I’m not “the developer”, but) Facebook does provide a notifications API for apps. Even though it’s under the “games” section, it says it’s for all apps, not just games. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/games/services/appnotifications It looks fairly simple to use. I expect the difficult bit would be handling the authentication, or extending the scope of the authentication if the user has already “logged in with Facebook”.

I wonder whether @joebuhlig or @brunoedigital got anywhere with the idea?

It’s something I might be interested in developing for my community (and open sourcing, of course), but that won’t be for a while.