KBExit Back when I first started on Flarum, I used Pusher. I have not had any issues with 1.8.x and Pusher integration. This makes me believe that there is something going on with your specific setup.
You have to just imagine this:
From my productive community means the public one that I use i created a copy and migrated in a different domain then upgraded from 1.8 to 2.0.
Was a big work, remove all extension then once on 2.0 add again extension or was not able to upgrade due to continue errors of incompatible extensios.
Once Flarum 2.0 has extension installed (different extension still be not available and someone maybe will never be) I simply noted that I dont have anymore any alert when on all discussion list a new discussion is added.
I dont know if also notification has the same issue but I noted that.
I tried to install Pusher extension and to put api key and app key required but nothing.
Currently I deleted all Flarum 2.0 demo and I'm back to the 1.8 scared about when will be the time to use Flarum 2.0