I’ll play the part of Leo and reply to a few items here……..
First - push notifications were always an option. At least until you removed that option.
This statement is only partially true, but also mostly false.
For roughly 4 years now I have been working behind the scenes with a developer on creating a full fledged Native App for TFP. For years push notifications were part of this App however were ONLY a
working option for the 6 users whom were on the Beta team. Everybody else that had the option enabled in their accounts were out of luck as they never actually were a
working option without the Native App. This project got as far as TFP having a fully working product approved in the App Store and everything. All that was needed was for TFP to hit the “launch” button and we’d be running a fully native App right now…..including push notifications via native app. For almost a decade this has been my main goal with the software. From day 1 I’ve been mobile first, and a Native App is the gold standard in this area.
Unfortunately a few things transpired over time and the developer in charge of the project dropped interest leaving us with a product 99% finished, but not 100%. We dropped this project but was handed a gift by Apple earlier this year when they enabled push notifications inside of a PWA as a feature in WebKit.
This allowed TFP to actually have the option to send notifications to users WITHOUT the need for a fully native App, something that was a requirement until 2023.
So for the TLDR version…..the setting was there as part of the native App, true. But it never actually worked for almost anybody as almost nobody had the native App. Only this year were we even able to have the discussion we’re having right now
How about adding a spell checker that works across all platforms?
I can run this by the developers at Xenforo whom created the forum software including the PWA and push notifications. I’ll see if they’re interested but will suspect it’s an uphill fight. I say that as a spell checker is already built into a massive majority of individual devices out there, but maybe we can make people actually use these features…..
Can't you just shut them off if you don't want to see them??
Over the years it’s been my goal to allow users to be able to fully customize their experience on TFP……this feature included. With the feeds feature installed a few years ago users can customize things to ONLY show what they’re interested in. Same with dark mode. I only want users to use them if they wish, otherwise just change things. Now proavia showed a screenshot that’s actually very helpful to me…..thank you
@proavia! You’re right, it’s not able to be disabled like it should be. I partially wonder if it’s device dependent, but I’ll be researching the reason today.
Zooming out even more I’d like to note this seems to be a message that’s only shown on a percentage of Android and MAYBE Windows users. This means that at most only roughly 25% to 40% of the forum would see this, which is still high……but definitely not everybody.
If (and I stress the word if) I’d want to show this to users I’d use the Xenforo messagings feature and notify everybody all at once, not just a small percentage of Android users.
I ask that you continue to provide these screenshots as we go as they help me see what’s actually happening on your device so we can all work together to improve the forum and the user experience. In the end there’s NO WAY I’d want the message to be persistent, especially not right there. We’ll for sure do some searching and pinpoint exactly what’s going on to get this addressed.
Lee
