Notification Hub – Development Updates

huseyinfiliz

Hello everyone!

As we continue to make progress on the Notification Hub extension, I wanted to share the latest development updates and give you a sneak peek at some exciting new features that are coming your way.

Firstly, some of you may already be familiar with the beginnings of this extension from the discussion started earlier under this thread:

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/32824-send-on-site-notifications/

You can check out the latest demo video showcasing these features 💖

🎉 Here’s the latest development progress:

🟢 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

If you have any ideas or features you'd like to see added, feel free to share them here. Your feedback is always appreciated!

Stay tuned for more updates, and thanks for following along with the progress!

Wlork

I can't wait to see the final result 🙂

Umutcan

I'm looking forward to it, great job 💫

huseyinfiliz

Hey everyone, i've planned some major changes for the Notification Hub extension, and before releasing it, I’d love to get some feedback from forum admins.

Notification Types

Admins can now add custom notification types directly from the settings. These types are stored in a dedicated database table within the extension.

Each type comes with tons of customization options, including notification icons, titles (which appear under the notification), and link URLs.

Sending Notifications from the Forum Interface

Now, sending a notification is as simple as selecting a notification type and writing your message. The extension will automatically use the icon, title, and URL settings you’ve configured for that type.

This will make sending quick notifications—like warnings—much easier.

For example:

Ad notifications will show a field to enter a custom link.

Warning notifications, on the other hand, won’t show a link field because they’ll automatically use a pre-set forum rules link from the settings.

Advanced Notification Targeting

There will also be an advanced notification panel in the settings. This will let you send notifications to specific user groups based on filters, similar to XenForo’s system.

For instance, you’ll be able to target:
🟢 Users who registered before 2025
🟢 Users in the verified members group
🟢 Users who logged in within the last month

Hope this all makes sense! Let me know if you have any suggestions—I’d really appreciate your feedback.

Wlork

I'll just quote the passages that tickle me 🙂

huseyinfiliz Warning notifications, on the other hand, won’t show a link field because they’ll automatically use a pre-set forum rules link from the settings.

Adding a link to the rules is a good idea ! However, we should keep the option of adding a link.

If a moderator (or other group) send a notification warning to a or several member(s), he'd like to include a link to the message that was flagged 🙂 I think it's important for them to understand why there is an avertissement.

huseyinfiliz There will also be an advanced notification panel in the settings.

I'm not sure I understand ?

These are extra options, aren't they? I mean, we can select one or more members/groups without these options ?

huseyinfiliz

Wlork Yep, I figured I didn’t explain it clearly enough... My bad! Let me break it down better.

Endless Customization for Notification Types

The examples I gave were just that—examples! The real power of this system is that you can create unlimited notification types tailored to your own forum.

For instance, let’s say you create a “Warning” notification type on your forum. You get to decide whether it has a default FA icon or not. In short, you’re in full control of your notification templates.

Now, let’s say I make a "Welcome" notification type. If I see a new user posting rule-breaking content, I can just go to their profile, click Send Notification, select "Welcome", and hit send. No extra steps—because I set this type to use default settings for everything.

Or maybe I create a “Contact” notification type. If a user comments that they want to reach me, I can go to their profile, select "Contact", and this time, I’ll see an FA icon field (to add a social media icon) and a link field (to direct them to my socials). But I won’t see a message field—because I pre-set it to say "Click this notification to contact me!"

Why So Much Customization?

Because it lets you build exactly what you need!

Remember Facebook’s Poke feature? Let’s say I run a fun, casual forum and I want all members—not just moderators—to send notifications to each other. I create a “Poke” notification type, set everything to default, and boom—users just hit send without changing anything.

The only limit here is your imagination! And yes, you can control which user groups can use specific notification types.

Now, About the Advanced Notification Panel

We’ve already gone deep here, so I’ll keep this one short.

XenForo has a super advanced system for sending notifications with filters. I’ve heard from people switching to Flarum that they miss this feature. Instead of cluttering the forum interface, I’m adding an Advanced Notification Panel in the admin settings.

Hope this makes everything clearer! Let me know what you think—I’d love to hear your feedback! 🚀

Wlork

huseyinfiliz Yep, I figured I didn’t explain it clearly enough... My bad! Let me break it down better.

Thanks for the clarification !

Well, it's even more promising than I thought ! 🙂

On paper, it's incredible to have this level of customisation ! I don't know when you plan to release this extension but I can't wait to use it. As I was saying, the more we use it, the more ideas we'll have (unless it's already very complete 😃).

huseyinfiliz

Wlork Honestlyyy... I have no idea.

Every day, I come up with a dozen new ideas, and I want this to be perfect. So far, I’ve spent 100+ hours on it, and I’d say I’m about halfway there (I think)...

I can’t give you an exact release date, but I probably need at least another week of work—unless, of course, I wake up tomorrow with even more ideas 😅

Wlork

huseyinfiliz

Thank you for your reply.

Take your time 😉 The most important thing is that the development goes well and that you sleep well 😃