I have downloaded the app so that I can be notified of certain websites. The notifications aren’t shown to the user as push notifications. So there is no point in needing the app.

[image] Lumrenion: May I ask for the reasons this feature won’t be implemented? I can provide this. Fundamentally cause this is Apple’s job not our job. They are the ones who suck here, Android have supported this for years. Why should thousands of self hosted Discourse instances send us pri…

As per the app description, push notifications are only received for hosted sites: Real time push notifications for officially hosted Discourse forums Are you using an iOS or Android device?

Unfortunately there’s not much we can do here. If you were on Android, installing the site as a PWA would work. iOS does not support push notifications from PWAs like Android does. You could talk to the site owner about using something like Pushover notifcations , but that plugin would need to be ins…

I think it is a great thing that discourse has done the step to publish an app for both iOS and Android to make multiple platforms easily available for the user. The only thing that’s a real issue is that push notifications do not work properly. For iOS: Sometimes I can see a little number on the a…

Of some relevance: [image] Sign the Petition Apple Inc.: Implement web push notifications on iOS devices

[image] Lumrenion: I would love to see such an implementation for discourse That was previously discussed and it’s not something we plan on offering. [image] Discourse App & Notifications Question support No, we have no plans to offer Google Play / Apple App Store …

Thanks for pointing out the discussion, Rafael. That’s really bad news though. Although it is over two years old and might not have been up to date anymore. May I ask for the reasons this feature won’t be implemented? It would be an outstanding feature for a forum software I assume.

We will not be doing this. If it is a requirement for you I suggest finding other free software that better meets your needs.

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Falco (Falco) January 17, 2020, 3:26pm 7

That was previously discussed and it’s not something we plan on offering.

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