send on-site notifications

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

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?

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 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.

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

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.

luceos

huseyinfiliz no need to hold back on communicating, I'm just trying to see if we can somehow improve the transparency of where we currently stand with this proposal. Execution on the request has already resulted in a work in progress extension, usually these are documented under #Dev. Let's just leave this as is and we'll close this once you publish.

Good luck, have a great weekend 😉

huseyinfiliz

luceos Got it! I think I might have caused some confusion, or maybe I just didn’t explain things clearly enough. The extension isn’t actually ready for testing yet.

I guess I didn’t emphasize enough that the videos and screenshots were just rough prototypes. For example, in the video I shared yesterday, I only sent a notification to one member—nothing more.

Just today, I added the ability to send notifications to multiple users, member groups, or even everyone at once.

If the prototype visuals made it seem like things were further along than they actually are, my bad! There’s still a lot of work left before the full release. I know the videos might make it look polished, but trust me, there’s still a ton to do—even some basic features aren’t fully set up yet.

To avoid causing any more confusion, I’ve created a new discussion for those who want to follow the extension’s progress: https://discuss.flarum.org/d/36945-notification-hub-development-updates

I really appreciate the patience, and I’ll keep you posted as things move forward. Thanks for the support, and have a great weekend too!

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