Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions - General Discussions

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

Robert — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:45:18 +0000

I'm sorry but the tapatalk integration is out of must have features. There is no any plans yet.

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

ram130 — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 08:08:07 +0000

Hey,

I'm curious what the status on these must haves? any clue on tapatalk support? A lot of users use it to manage their forums, were they contacted. Do you need backup (us sending them email)...

btw, facebook login (account creation) isn't even working, it just stays in loading limbo.

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

RimsOnAToaster — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:41:55 +0000

Testing that this setup works!

Yo, the solution @anonymous3542 posted works for free with Pushbullet + IFTTT! Super dope.

Register for Pushbullet (it's free)
Install Pushbullet on your mobile devices and web browsers
Make an RSS Feed Applet on IFTTT.com using the Forum Topic's RSS link, and have it send a link to Pushbullet
Done!

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

MrSamG — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:12:47 +0000

I looked at https://ifttt.com and RSS feeds. Simply put, an RSS feed is the answer. There are lots of apps out there which will give you a notification on mobile when the RSS feed is updated. However, my particular problem is the site is behind a paywall and so the RSS feed is inaccessible - well at least I've not found an app that you can put your login credentials into and it pull the RSS feed successfully.

But anyway, after a long night where I fell asleep at my keyboard, I solved it the very next day. I did it with a telegram bot that can pipe emails from an address of its own creation to a telegram chat. Of course the user has to change their email address on the forum to the one provided by the bot.

https://etlgr.com/ Steps at the bottom...

It's not perfect and on a per user basis there could be a security implication of involving the 3rd party bot and an email address that the user doesn't really control. However, in my forums there is only really one forum that users want immediate updates on - it's stock trading signals. So I made a vanilla user account and subscribed it to new topics on that forum. I set it's email as provided by the bot after installing the bot into a telegram channel. All interested users can subscribe to that channel to safely get updates immediately - average 5 seconds in my tests.

This has already proved so popular today that I did another one for the site wide recent topics. Only issue was I have to manually sign the second vanilla user account up to each and every forum because there is no subscribe on the recent post page.

Anyway, it's much better than everyone getting so many emails.

1. On a mobile device, go to https://etlgr.com/

2. Press on ‘Launch the Bot’. A chat with the bot should open in telegram app.

3. Press on ‘Start’. It will tell you an email address. We don’t need that.

4. Go to your channel you have set up for your users to get notifications (public channel, or if your site is members only then set it as private).

5. Press on the name of your channel at the top. A new window should open.

6. Press on the cog. More options will appear.

7. Press on ‘Administrators’. You will go into a window showing the administrators.

8. Press on ‘Add Administrator’.

9. Press the search magnifying glass.

10. Type in the search @etlgr_bot

11. Select to add as an administrator with all permissions

12. Go back to the main screen of the channel

13. Send the following message /start

14. A notification will appear in your other chat with the bot.

15. Go to that chat

16. It will give you an email address.

17. Set that email address on your vanilla user account in the forums.

18. Subscribe that user to whatever notifications you want the people in the channel to see.

19. Change the forum notification email templates so the notifications are presented well as notification on Telegram

20. Test by writing a topic.

21. A notification appears in the Telegram Channel. It will be the same message on a subscription email, a small preview with a link to the full post on the website. It is good that it's only a preview and that they can't reply in a channel as it will keep people on the website. You could do this in a chat group but then you would have users interacting there rather than in the forums.

Any questions, just let me know. Getting to this point nearly sent me round the twist so if I can make it easier for anyone else I will gladly help.

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

Anonymous3542 — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 09:19:01 +0000

@samhunter I've managed to get a working prototype of push notifications up and running. Relatively simple affair.

1. Go to pushover and create an account. There's a one time charge, but very cheap

2. Install Pushover on your mobile device

3. Go to https://ifttt.com and create an RSS feed that will send to Pushover (essentially, you are going to use the RSS feeds from your forum)

4. Register the application

5. Post a message on the forum

6. IFTTT delivers the message to your device

This is in simplistic form. I can provide more detailed instructions if anyone is interested, but I do have this working on https://dev.phenomlab.com

There is also a "teams" version of Pushover, at USD 5.00 per user, per month - useful if you want the user to get notifications as soon as they subscribe rather than have to configure their own.

GCM is also worth a read, but of course, restricted to Android devices - http://swarajsaaj.github.io/posts/android-push-gcm-notifications

One other option (which I currently leverage) is a SLACK channel where RSS feeds are posted. This then uses the push notification of the device (you need SLACK installed on the mobile device and signed into the channel, but it's not a big deal). This way, as soon as the RSS feed is updated, a push notification is generated in SLACK and sent to the user.

I'm also looking at FLOCK.

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

VereK — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 02:38:52 +0000

These guys have some push notifications for forums experience https://tma.li/ and purportedly have a WP solution in the works.

As some of the posters have mentioned though, I would prefer to support a Gvectors solution.

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

MrSamG — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:05:39 +0000

Posted by: anonymous3542
@samhunter you wouldn't be paying for any services I provide. There are two points I'll make here.
1. wpForo is open source and we have a great community here. I'm an advocate of open source so won't be charging . It's my way of giving something back.
2. I have a vested interest in this so I can't realistically charge you or anyone else for something I want myself .
I'll need information around the hooks though so hopefully @robert can provide insight .

That would be amazing @anonymous3542 I hope we can get those web hooks from @robert

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

Anonymous3542 — Sat, 17 Mar 2018 00:02:36 +0000

@samhunter you wouldn't be paying for any services I provide. There are two points I'll make here.

1. wpForo is open source and we have a great community here. I'm an advocate of open source so won't be charging . It's my way of giving something back.

2. I have a vested interest in this so I can't realistically charge you or anyone else for something I want myself .

I'll need information around the hooks though so hopefully @robert can provide insight .

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

MrSamG — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:34:12 +0000

Sounds good. To start I'm not looking for a fully fledged app. Just need an app that handles push notifications to the app in place of, or in addition to, the current email system for each individual user - allowing them to tap the notification and be taken to the relevant forum/topic as happens with links in the email notifications.

In my mind, the app would be generic so it could be used by anyone running wp-foro. The user would put forum address, and user details into app to connect. And I guess there would be a wordpress plugin that would handle things on that side.

I guess I'm just worried about paying twice. Once to you or other developer and then for whatever app wp-foro bring out.

Trouble is it's not clear how long we may have to wait for whatever gets done in house.

What kind of cost would it be to do the bare bones app and plugin?

RE: Features that are a must have - Live Notifications, Tapatalk support + a few other suggestions

Anonymous3542 — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 22:34:54 +0000

@samhunter I'm a developer myself 👍 and happy to start looking at this. Essentially, it's just an API that gets triggered when a particular function or hook in wordpress is executed.

If the wpForo guys can tell us what the hooks are, I'm more than happy to start work on this.

@robert is there a list of available hooks anywhere ?

Thanks