I have read everything I can read in these forums on push notifications, and I cannot figure out why I cannot get them to work. I have not installed the push notifications plugin because the forums say that they are included in Discourse Core. Live notifications are enabled in preferences. Does this feature work without installing the plugin? Also, the user prompt at the top of the page that is supposed to be there is not despite enabling the prompt in settings. This is the error I see in my logs: TypeError: Failed to construct 'Notification': Illegal constructor. Use ServiceWorkerRegistration.showNotification() instead. at o (https://caseclosed.world/assets/application-5a08d7796085bdd3031b0fbc17dea424f5c6cd21f021924582fcb0200bd8325f.js:12:23300) at https://caseclosed.world/assets/application-5a08d7796085bdd3031b0fbc17dea424f5c6cd21f021924582fcb0200bd8325f.js:29:4479

[image] Destry_Hunt: what do you recommend I do if I want to provide push notifications in other browsers on Android It does work fine on Firefox on Android, but we don’t support that browser. It works because it adheres to the same web standard every modern browser implements. [image] Destry_Hunt: iOS iOS Safari browser don’t implement the Web Push Notification web standard, so there is nothing we can do here. [image] Destry_Hunt: I am guessing I can install the discourse plugin for desktop notifications to resolve that issue. That plugin only “unhides” the web push button for desktop browsers. Support is still the same, Chrome, Firefox & Edge, on the Desktop and Android. We only hide this button on desktop because most people don’t want notifications when the browser is closed on the desktop (and you are playing a game, fullscreen and dies because of the notification lag :wink:).

Native browser notifications work without a plugin. If you’re using the single site app then onesignal notifications are used. Self hosted instances don’t support app notifications, they’re part of the secret sauce used in hosting.

So…I am hosting my own Discourse. Am I to understand that I should expect native browser notifications to work? What am I missing?

Ok…I think there is a problem, because live browser notifications are not working. Do they only work when one is currently ON that website?

They’ll work if you have a window open on the website, or if you have the mobile PWA installed.

Is your site using https? Is force_https enabled?

@supermathie perhaps that is what I am missing…the mobile PWA. I will give that a try. Do users also need to “watch” categories, or can that field in settings remain blank? I am trying to simplify the process for users to enable notifications. I was hoping that by me setting certain categories to watch by default in settings that they would not have to take that extra step of watching categories. As it is, they have to go to their preferences to enable live notifications, and now it is looking like they need to download the PWA. Still, I am bewildered as to why the user prompt is not appearing at the top of the page.

@Stephen it is funny you mention that, because “force Https” does not appear in my settings. I was running a test Discourse forum on another domain and with another host before launching a new domain with a new host. I no longer see the “force https” in the settings. Https is active, though, or at least that is what the url indicates.

How was this instance installed?

I followed the same steps…I thought the change was due to a Discourse core update, and until now I did not pay much attention to the issue. The only difference was the new domain, and the new host. I am using the Material Design Theme with custome header links and discourse social share components. These are the plugins installed: [Capture] The forum is found here https://caseclosed.world

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supermathie (Michael Brown) May 1, 2019, 7:29pm 4

Live browser notifications should work if you have the site loaded or are using the PWA.

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