supermanwave Does Flarum rely on Pusher's servers? If it does, this should be made clear to potential users. No one wants to use Pusher, for many reasons. Especially when there are free and open source alternatives like socket.io.
xkeyC supermanwave This is an optional feature,used to refresh the page in real time, you can use other extensions instead
luceos The bundled extension flarum/pusher allows for realtime discussion updates. The extension, like all extensions, can be disabled and uninstalled. There's currently one alternative, as a premium community extension: https://extiverse.com/extension/kyrne/websocket
luceos robinodds the kyrne websocket extension can do that, for our bundled extension a PR is not yet merged: flarum/pusher17