Native Push Notifications Support for NodeBB
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Our relationship with push notifications has been rather circuitous...
- First Andrew (psychobunny) tried plain desktop notifications via the Notification API (that's the desktop notifications plugin), but notification delivery stopped when you closed your browser.
- Then I wrote the PushBullet plugin, but they went from free to paid and that went out the window
- Around that time I wrote the Firebase plugin, which was a dead end because there was no iOS support.
- I then wrote the ntfy plugin, which works really well, but does rely on a freemium third-party service and app (written by @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh)
Thanks to some recent discussion from crazycells and bh4-tech, I learned that the Push API had reached general availability across most modern browsers. In fact, this actually happened over a year ago, so compatibility should be even better.
So I set about working on yet another push notifications plugin, hopefully for the last time, and this time using the native Push API on the client-side.
To enable them, simply navigate over to the "Push Notifications" menu item in your user profile, and flip the switch.
So, let's dogfood! I de-activated the ntfy plugin on this site and activated the web-push plugin so you can try it out right now.
The plugin is in the proof-of-concept phase, so there might (read: most definitely will be) issues. Please let me know any you find here.
To use the native notifications i have to disable ntfy first?
Edit: After disabling there are no notifications settings under user settings. So I guess I have to update the software
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To use the native notifications i have to disable ntfy first?
Edit: After disabling there are no notifications settings under user settings. So I guess I have to update the software
dave1904 sorry. It's not core. You need to install
nodebb-plugin-web-pushand then you'll see the section I mentioned previously. -
Our relationship with push notifications has been rather circuitous...
- First Andrew (psychobunny) tried plain desktop notifications via the Notification API (that's the desktop notifications plugin), but notification delivery stopped when you closed your browser.
- Then I wrote the PushBullet plugin, but they went from free to paid and that went out the window
- Around that time I wrote the Firebase plugin, which was a dead end because there was no iOS support.
- I then wrote the ntfy plugin, which works really well, but does rely on a freemium third-party service and app (written by @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh)
Thanks to some recent discussion from crazycells and bh4-tech, I learned that the Push API had reached general availability across most modern browsers. In fact, this actually happened over a year ago, so compatibility should be even better.
So I set about working on yet another push notifications plugin, hopefully for the last time, and this time using the native Push API on the client-side.
To enable them, simply navigate over to the "Push Notifications" menu item in your user profile, and flip the switch.
So, let's dogfood! I de-activated the ntfy plugin on this site and activated the web-push plugin so you can try it out right now.
The plugin is in the proof-of-concept phase, so there might (read: most definitely will be) issues. Please let me know any you find here.
phenomlab found the plugin, thanks!
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Our relationship with push notifications has been rather circuitous...
- First Andrew (psychobunny) tried plain desktop notifications via the Notification API (that's the desktop notifications plugin), but notification delivery stopped when you closed your browser.
- Then I wrote the PushBullet plugin, but they went from free to paid and that went out the window
- Around that time I wrote the Firebase plugin, which was a dead end because there was no iOS support.
- I then wrote the ntfy plugin, which works really well, but does rely on a freemium third-party service and app (written by @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh)
Thanks to some recent discussion from crazycells and bh4-tech, I learned that the Push API had reached general availability across most modern browsers. In fact, this actually happened over a year ago, so compatibility should be even better.
So I set about working on yet another push notifications plugin, hopefully for the last time, and this time using the native Push API on the client-side.
To enable them, simply navigate over to the "Push Notifications" menu item in your user profile, and flip the switch.
So, let's dogfood! I de-activated the ntfy plugin on this site and activated the web-push plugin so you can try it out right now.
The plugin is in the proof-of-concept phase, so there might (read: most definitely will be) issues. Please let me know any you find here.
This requires me to toggle this on by going to my user's profile. is there a way this can be made default 'on' for all users on platform?
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This requires me to toggle this on by going to my user's profile. is there a way this can be made default 'on' for all users on platform?
Pankaj-Soni yes and no... the enabling of the push notifications requires a discrete user action — the user has to actually press the switch to enable notifications.
There are ways we can advertise this to end users, so I will look into adding those soon. For now, users will have to go into their user settings to enable push notifications.
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Pankaj-Soni yes and no... the enabling of the push notifications requires a discrete user action — the user has to actually press the switch to enable notifications.
There are ways we can advertise this to end users, so I will look into adding those soon. For now, users will have to go into their user settings to enable push notifications.
julian Just like pankaj-soni , I too would like to have push notifications on by default
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Our relationship with push notifications has been rather circuitous...
- First Andrew (psychobunny) tried plain desktop notifications via the Notification API (that's the desktop notifications plugin), but notification delivery stopped when you closed your browser.
- Then I wrote the PushBullet plugin, but they went from free to paid and that went out the window
- Around that time I wrote the Firebase plugin, which was a dead end because there was no iOS support.
- I then wrote the ntfy plugin, which works really well, but does rely on a freemium third-party service and app (written by @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh)
Thanks to some recent discussion from crazycells and bh4-tech, I learned that the Push API had reached general availability across most modern browsers. In fact, this actually happened over a year ago, so compatibility should be even better.
So I set about working on yet another push notifications plugin, hopefully for the last time, and this time using the native Push API on the client-side.
To enable them, simply navigate over to the "Push Notifications" menu item in your user profile, and flip the switch.
So, let's dogfood! I de-activated the ntfy plugin on this site and activated the web-push plugin so you can try it out right now.
The plugin is in the proof-of-concept phase, so there might (read: most definitely will be) issues. Please let me know any you find here.
Hi.
Just to be certain, push notifications still don’t work on iOS under NodeBB 4.4.4 with nodebb-plugin-web-push 0.7.4, right? -
Hi.
Just to be certain, push notifications still don’t work on iOS under NodeBB 4.4.4 with nodebb-plugin-web-push 0.7.4, right?D1re_W0lf mmm it should work but we don't have Apple devices to test against...
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D1re_W0lf Although I don't have an iOS device, but according to docs,on iOS web push notifications work on only those sites which have been added to home screen. So, add this site to home screen and check after few hours.
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D1re_W0lf Although I don't have an iOS device, but according to docs,on iOS web push notifications work on only those sites which have been added to home screen. So, add this site to home screen and check after few hours.
bh4-tech that's good to know, thank you!
