[nodebb-plugin-pushbullet] Push Notifications for NodeBB
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Pushbullet Integration for NodeBB
After much anticipated demand, I'm proud to say that Push Notifications have landed in NodeBB!
We've been in touch with PushBullet, a Y Combinator-funded startup in San Francisco, and they granted us early access to their OAuth based integration, allowing me to bring this to you guys. We're going into full testing mode with this now that the plugin is more or less complete, so you can try it out here on this forum (by clicking the "Pushbullet" menu option in your user settings), or by clicking here
Pushbullet released their OAuth interface yesterday, and so now's the perfect time to unveil our integration with it too!
This plugin is a premium plugin. What this means is that upon release, it is available exclusively to members of our hosted community and select partners. After a short period, it will be released publically and published on npm like other plugins.
Tentatively, the release date is scheduled for: When NodeBB v0.5.0 lands
EDIT: The plugin is now available to the general public! Install it via
npm install nodebb-plugin-pushbullet -
This is how NodeBB notifications look in Pushbullet and on the notifications drawer
Pushbullet is supported on Android (via the Play Store), and on iOS (via the App Store).
The really cool thing about Pushbullet is that it's free right now, when other push notification services are "pay per push", which can be cost-prohibitive to many smaller community owners. So kudos to the Pushbullet team!
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Guys, you blew up my phone
Some Thoughts
- As mentioned in another thread, there's the tendency to get lots of notifications at once, especially if you get upvoted, mentioned, and happen to watch the topic in question. gh#1375 addresses this, and will make it into v0.5.0
- The screenshots so far show the generic title "New Notification from {site title}", with the notification text as the body. This can be improved, so that relevant post content can actually be shown in the post itself, allowing you to decide in the notification drawer whether to dismiss or act on the push. Right now, it's impossible to tell (especially with a notification like "@baris has upvoted your post"... but which post?! )
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Very cool
In theory you should be able to easily extend this to support other push services, right? (depending on how easy other push services are to implement, that is) -
@Schamper The main reason I only went ahead with this now is because other push services cost money. It is a business, after all. There's simply no incentive for me to create a plugin to talk to a third-party push messaging service when the forum owner would have to pay per push.
Pushbullet is free (for now, anyway), so I'm not one to turn down an opportunity
In the future they may monetise their service, and I imagine we'll adjust accordingly when that happens. Think "Askimet" for WordPress.In short, theoretically, yes, but you'd have to adapt the code to their own API, that's all
Edit: In hindsight, I should've launched a plugin weekend this weekend... I would've won ALL THE UPVOTES
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@julian said:
@Schamper The main reason I only went ahead with this now is because other push services cost money. It is a business, after all. There's simply no incentive for me to create a plugin to talk to a third-party push messaging service when the forum owner would have to pay per push.
Good point.
Edit: In hindsight, I should've launched a plugin weekend this weekend... I would've won ALL THE UPVOTES
Are premium plugins allowed to enter though
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Just for @a_5mith, the plugin has been updated so you can select which device to receive notifications to:
No easy way to select more than 1 device to send pushes to (e.g. send to chrome and my phone, but not to firefox), but perhaps in a future version
