PUSH notifications for Guests (Watch/Subscribe)

[Alpha1]

One of the most promising opportunities that PUSH notifications offer is to communicate with guests and to pull in unregistered users.
Please consider to add functionality for this.

Here is how it could work:

• Ask the guest if they want to receive PUSH notifications.
• In admincp under 'contact users' provide a function to send messages to guests.
• In node/category settings add a setting to alert users/guests of new threads/entries. (this is useful for announcements)

• For unregistered users display a 'Watch' link in the same places as registered users.
• When replies are added to watched content, send a PUSH notification to the user.

• For unregistered users display a 'Like' link in the same places as registered users. *
• When replies are added to Liked content, send a PUSH notification to the user.

* In case Reactions get implemented for XF, then the same goes for this.

If the above would be implemented then this should increase site popularity and registration rates significantly.

 

[vbresults]

You can't use different push providers of the same type simultaneously anyway (say XF2.1 and OS both using the Push API).

 

[Sperber]

Since OneSignal is trafficking user data and selling to third and forth parties (at least as long as you use the free service on the data is processed through their servers), you can´t use this on websites inside the european union, as it violates the core of the GDPR. Ignoring this will make you a sitting duck for every unemployed lawyer out there, scraping websites which don´t comply with the GDPR to sent you a warning and his invoice to gather some cash for that. As a responsible forums owner you can´t think about using OneSignal, seriously.

Bottom line for the european union: it has to be implemented on your server, the data collected has to be stored there and nowhere else, you (and your provider) are the only ones processing these data - and this all has to be within the scope of your privacy policy. Else you need user consent prior, documentation of that consent for each and every user, you have to document every use of the collected data aso, aso. Full GDPR documentation rules apply.

 

[Biarritz64]

something simple like sending push to guests and registers when a new message is created in a forum. (for small or medium forum, it will be amazing)
for now i use onesignal with zapier to do it (it use the rss feed and sends a push).
but when i will upgrade to 2.1 i will use only xenforo push...So yes we need something.

And maybe you can use the rss too @Alfa1

 

[dethfire]

For high traffic boards this could be a performance nightmare?

 

[Biarritz64]

For big forum, It will too much message received per day
You will have to create a max push per day option
And it will be good for all forum

 

[Alpha1]

Since OneSignal is trafficking user data and selling to third and forth parties

OneSignal will no longer share data with advertisers.

Over the next few weeks, OneSignal will fully discontinue sharing any data with third parties.

onesignal.com

 

[StarArmy]

This is an excellent suggestion and I hope to see it in the next version of Xenforo 2.1.