Use cdmHUB Community on your phone

Discourse provides Discourse Hub as an app for community website powered by Discourse. You can follow these steps to interact with the cdmHUB community.

  1. Download Discourse Hub from your APP store.
  2. Open Discourse Hub and add cdmHUB community using its url: community.cdmHUB.org. You can also use the Discover tab and search for composites, you will find cdmHUB Community. Click + to add.
  3. Sign up/Login cdmHUB community. Click the button on the right to signup/login.
  4. Set up proper notification for Discourse Hub APP on your phone. You should be able to receive notification for anytime you are mentioned on cdmHUB community through your phone notification center. You will also see a red number over the app as shown below for new posts on cdmHUB community.

Please let us know if the above procedures do not work for you.

@Yu_Group can you share whether you can receive notifications via your phone push notice?

I am not receiving push notifications on the discourse app. I have enabled notifications for this app in my phone settings but still don’t get notifications.

@banghuazhao Can you investigate the APP notification issues?

@Haodong I need to look into the code. Do you have repo link for it?

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Hi @Haodong, to receive remote push notifications on iPhone, a server needs to send a request to Apple. After Apple receives the request, Apple will send Apple Push Notification (APN) to the user’s iPhone. So Discourse Mobile needs two capabilities for APN:

  • A running server that can send requests to Apple for APN
  • Discourse Mobile needs to provide API for the community site to send requests to Apple for APN
    Does Discourse Mobile have the capabilities?

I know how it works. But I’m not sure what they implemented. Of course, out server cannot interact with Apple server since it’s not our app. But it’s possible Discourse sever could interact with our hosting and push the notification. I can receive push notification (not 100% reliable) when tagged. You can have a try.

If we can receive push notifications but it is intermittent, it means we have configured correctly but the APN sometimes fails. This might be network issue or Discourse’s server issue. It is likely that the root cause comes from Discourse side. You can create an issue to their repo and list the detailed reproduce steps for them to fix.

It is some phones can and some phones cannot.

@Haodong Here is the notification I received on the phone. The message is very general.