I get asked about these issues constantly when I suggest Discourse as a platform. It will be especially important with the upcoming Discourse Chat (PRE-ALPHA) as it starts to compete with Discord, which has a pretty good mobile experience. I am hoping some of my customers who currently have very split communities between real-time (chat) and asynchronous (forum) communication can “have it all” with integrated chat, but it won’t be a proper and fully comfortable replacement for Discord until notifications are great across all platforms, and as trivial to use as any other app. An actual app would be even better, though I know that’s a tall order given Discourse’s design.
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