Falco announces the launch of inline quick replies for Discourse Chat notifications, allowing users to respond directly from their device’s native notification system. This feature is currently supported on Android Wear OS, Android, and Windows, with UI variations across platforms. Falco outlines potential future enhancements, including inline reactions, handling errors, supporting replies to topics/posts, and internationalization.
jordan-violet praises the feature and the rapid growth of the chat functionality, noting the benefit of keeping users within the Discourse ecosystem rather than fragmenting them across platforms like Discord. They suggest a feature to break chat messages into topics.
darkpixlz asks about iOS support. Falco explains that iOS support depends on Apple implementing the WebPush standard properly, which is not under Discourse’s control, though they hope for it in 2023. Falco also notes that a previous bug has been fixed via a GitHub pull request, enabling support for single-emoji replies as reactions and chat threads.
NateDhaliwal expresses enthusiasm and asks if similar functionality will be applied to topics. gilles asks in French if the feature works on Apple devices.
This is a great addition. I was so confused when I thought, “wow, a dynamic example image showing my username”, and then realizing it was just a screenshot of my username.
I love how quickly this chat feature is growing–I can’t wait until the right time to add it to our community. As much as I love Discord, from our business use case, I really don’t want to have another platform to manage and to fragment my users into.
A nice feature to have would be to select one or more chat messages and break them off into a topic.
No idea, that’s on Apple. We implement against the open web standard and it works on every OS that implements the spec, like Windows, Android, Chrome OS, etc. One can hope that when/if Apple implements WebPush in 2023 they do it properly, but all we can do is hope.
