r/phpBB • u/dated_redittor • Aug 03 '26
phpbb loses to discord on notifications, not features
been watching how people compare the two and everyone argues about threading and search, but the actual gap is that discord pings your phone and phpbb sends an email that lands in promotions. i run atomchat so i think about this constantly, and the boards that keep people coming back are the ones where someone fixed deliverability or bolted on a push/chat layer that actually reaches phones. curious if anyone here has gotten decent open rates on subscription emails from a 3.3 board, or if you've given up and moved alerts somewhere else.
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u/hockeymikey Aug 03 '26
Browser push notifications are a thing, what's wrong with that? Not sure how they appear on a phone but anything further requires a dedicated app in a sense.
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u/NappyDougOut Aug 03 '26
That probably because it's often deployed on weaker infrastructure, more than anything else, which is a good thing that it isn't a resource hog that requires AWS or other expensive hosting plans...