send on-site notifications

Wlork

huseyinfiliz However, including moderators in future updates is definitely a possibility. I’ll consider this for upcoming improvements as I continue working on the project.

That reassures me. I thought it was important for moderators to be able to send warnings, at least.

But when you release the first version, we'll be able to see how it works and refine the suggestion 🙂

huseyinfiliz Different notification types (warnings, news, etc.):

huseyinfiliz it’s on my to-do list for the next updates

👍

Good luck with the development, I'll do my best to help you to improve this extension when the first version is released.

huseyinfiliz

Wlork The initial test version of the notification hub extension will be ready for use in a few days.

I need a few testers. Please reach out to me via the email or Telegram (my username is the same) listed on my profile.

This version is for testing purposes only. It should not be tested on live forums, as it could potentially cause irreversible damage to your forum.

huseyinfiliz

Eren65465024 tolgaaaltas Wlork Capybara flavour1 First of all, I apologize if the tag bothered you. I'll try not to repeat it. I thought it might catch your interest.

Please keep in mind that this is just a demo and not the final version in terms of design or functionality. I prepared this demo to give you an idea of the development process before releasing the early access version of the extension. Seeing it in this state might make it easier for you to come up with new ideas and suggestions.

Demo

Development Status Update

✅️ Sending notifications from the settings page
✅️ Sending notifications to all selected members at once (by ID)
✅️ Notification types (information, advertisement, warning, or custom)
✅️ Setting a custom FA icon
✅️ Setting a custom link address
✅️ Specifying the member (avatar) sending the notification
✅️ Member selection modal
✅️ Sending bulk notifications to member groups
✅️ Selecting all members with a single button click

❎️ Sending notifications/warnings to members from their profiles
❎️ Deleting notifications
❎️ Managing custom notification types
❎️ Default settings for notification types
❎️ Moderators sending notifications
❎️ Automatic notification setting for new members
❎️ Queue integration

You can let us know about any additional features you would like to see.

huseyinfiliz

Development Status

❎️ Member selection modal
❎️ Sending bulk notifications to member groups
❎️ Selecting all members with a single button click
❎️ Sending notifications/warnings to members from their profiles
❎️ Deleting notifications
❎️ Managing custom notification types
❎️ Default settings for notification types
❎️ Moderators sending notifications
❎️ Automatic notification setting for new members
❎️ Queue integration

You can let us know about any additional features you would like to see.

Capybara

huseyinfiliz You’re creating something incredible✨

Wlork

huseyinfiliz Moderators sending notifications

I've been thinking about this suggestion.

We'll have to see in practice, but It wouldn't be simpler to integrate a permission system like we have in many extensions ? That way, the administrator could choose one or more groups to send notifications.... 🙂

Thank you again !

flavour1

huseyinfiliz this is amazing and more I have ever thought of or hoped for! thank you for working on such a broad extension! really looking forward to it!

huseyinfiliz

Capybara I'm glad you think that way. Feeling the support of the community always feels amazing. Thank you once again for all the support you've given so far.

By the way, here's an image related to notification types:

huseyinfiliz

Wlork integrate a permission system

Already so, since you said "moderator," I used it that way. I didn't specifically mean the "moderator" user group 😄

What I mean is, of course, you will be able to grant permission to send notifications to the member groups you want

Wlork

huseyinfiliz First of all, I apologize if the tag bothered you. I'll try not to repeat it. I thought it might catch your interest.

No problem for me 🙂 I really appreciate following your progress and that you're taking your time to release a complete version.

So, I saw the video.

It's really very promising ! 🙂 However, I have two questions :

It wouldn't be easier to put a button in the user card dropdown menu and/or in the session dropdown menu under the link to the admin panel ? And this button would open a window with the settings you show in the video ? I'm asking because I wonder how the other groups will be able to send notifications when they don't have access to the admin panel ?
About notification types... I don't know if you plan to do this, but it's not better to select the type rather than manually setting the icon reference?

In the meantime, thanks again for what you do ! 🙂

flavour1

Wlork No problem for me 🙂 I really appreciate following your progress and that you're taking your time to release a complete version.

this! 🙂

this extension looks so promising, I'm really exited about this!
I have one question though… I guess there won't be any new options for forum users in their profile > settings > Notifications preferences? Since the notifications are by design kind of obligatory, it won't make any sense to let the user decide, if they want to be notified or not. the only case I could imagine, where such options would make sense, is to let the users decide whether they want to also recieve push notifications or not for such admin/moderator notifications. I use the PWA extension, which adds the "Push" option to the notifications beside web and email (notifications).

huseyinfiliz

Wlork Thank you so much for your support and your thoughtful questions! 🙂

Regarding the first question, it's an interesting idea to add a button in the user card dropdown menu or the session dropdown menu under the admin panel link. It would open a window with the settings from the video. The main issue here is that for this feature to work, user data from all groups needs to be pulled in the background, which would require quite a lot of code. The page you saw in the video is quite complex and involves 750+ lines of code, so I'm concerned about how this would affect the front-end performance.

For now, I’m not planning to add this functionality to the front-end, especially with so many features. However, I will definitely conduct some tests on this idea.

As for providing other members (moderators) with a more restricted interface, I’m thinking about offering a simplified version, such as the ability to send notifications to individual users.

Thank you again for your input!

Wlork

huseyinfiliz

I'm so glad it helped you !! 🙂

It's fantastic. Can't wait to test and use it!

Just a small question that you forgot to answer 🙂

Wlork About notification types... I don't know if you plan to do this, but it's not better to select the type rather than manually setting the icon reference?

huseyinfiliz

flavour1 I truly appreciate your support, and I’m really glad you like the extension!

Regarding the profile settings and notifications preferences, I haven’t thought about restricting users from disabling certain notifications. I will need to explore whether we can prevent users from turning off these specific notifications in their profile settings. I’ll definitely test this and get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you so much for this fantastic suggestion!

This extension is currently focused only on web notifications, and I don't plan to include email or push notifications at this stage. I haven’t done enough testing yet to fully implement those features. I’ll provide more detailed information on this in the near future.

Thank you for your suggestions, and please feel free to share any other ideas you might have! I truly appreciate the support from everyone!

Addition: Thanks for this great suggestion! I have disabled the ability to turn off special notifications from the profile settings. Now, special notifications no longer appear in the profile settings! I’m not sure how it works with the PWA extension. Maybe you’d like to test it when the preview version is released?

Wlork

huseyinfiliz Pour l'instant, je ne prévoit pas d'ajouter cette fonctionnalité au front-end, en particulier avec autant de fonctionnalités. Cependant, je vais certainement passer des tests sur cette idée.

If you can at least test this solution, that's great.

There's an extension that uses this process. If I find it later today, I'll let you know. Maybe it'll help.... 🙂

flavour1

huseyinfiliz Addition: Thanks for this great suggestion! I have disabled the ability to turn off special notifications from the profile settings. Now, special notifications no longer appear in the profile settings! I’m not sure how it works with the PWA extension. Maybe you’d like to test it when the preview version is released?

Perhaps it would be most convenient to add an option in the admin panel for the extension like "allow users to configure special notifications" aka notifications from notification hub, so the admins can decide if users are able to configure the notifications in their notification settings. I don't know if this is easy to implement, so just sharing this thought.

Wlork

@huseyinfiliz

I found the extension 🙂 It's Mailing : https://flarum.org/extension/clarkwinkelmann/flarum-ext-mailing

I'm just talking about :

Button in the user card dropdown menu and/or in the session dropdown menu under the link to the admin panel
And the search function for members and group

It's a different extension. There are probably less settings, but if it can help you improve on these points.... I hope 🙂

huseyinfiliz

@flavour1 and @Wlork Greetings from a brand-new day... Today, we're having one of those "interesting" days in our development process. Thanks to Wlork's relentless persistence, I dove into the code structure of Clark Winkelmann's mailing extension, and here we are...

No need for more chit-chat, just watch the video! You're going to love it 💖

Development Status Update

Ready

✅️ Sending notifications from the all page
✅️ Sending notifications to all selected members at once
✅️ Notification types (info, ads, warning, custom)
✅️ Setting a custom FA icon
✅️ Setting a custom link address
✅️ Specifying the member (avatar) sending the notification
✅️ Member selection modal
✅️ Sending bulk notifications to member groups
✅️ Sending bulk notifications to all users

New

✅️ Moderators sending notifications
✅️ Sending notifications/warnings to members from their profiles

Continues

❎️ Deleting notifications
❎️ Managing custom notification types
❎️ Default settings for notification types
❎️ Automatic notification setting for new members

You can let us know about any additional features you would like to see.

huseyinfiliz

Wlork Ah, yes! I actually included this in the ongoing developments section. I wanted to test it before responding. If you look at the last few seconds of the video, you’ll see "Subject 1" under the notification.

That’s actually a title for the notification type. There will be general notifications, ad notifications, warning notifications, and special notifications. The first three types will be configurable from the admin settings, where the notification title can also be customized. Each type will have default settings (like an icon) that can be adjusted.

I’m also planning to add a setting to limit how many notifications moderators can send per day.

If there’s anything else that comes to mind, feel free to share! I really appreciate your support.

Wlork

huseyinfiliz

Thank you for your answer, it reassures me : )

huseyinfiliz If there’s anything else that comes to mind, feel free to share! I really appreciate your support.

Personally, I don't have any other ideas. It already seems very complete ! We'll see when we use it.

And thanks to you above all 🙂

luceos

@huseyinfiliz it feels like discussion has gone away from the purpose of a Proposal. Wouldn't it make sense to open a discussion to publish the extension, or is this going to be a premium one?

huseyinfiliz

luceos sorry for the inconvenience. I aimed to release a stable version of the extension that everyone would like before publishing it. Discussing with the forum admins to understand their needs and requests helped the extension develop in a way that will be more useful.

I don't expect many more requests to come in. I won't be posting further under this discussion. The extension won’t be premium. (I can’t even if i wanted to due to Stripe issues)

Anyway, I’ll open a new discussion when the extension is ready.