📱 Installing the eHealth Forum as an 'App'

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Several people find it a bit tricky installing ehealthforum.nz as an ‘app’. This is due to it being a Progressive Web App (PWA), which is installed directly (i.e. NOT via the app stores).

To install it on your phone or other device:

  1. Visit ehealthforum.nz on the device and log in (this QR code might help):

    QR code ehealthforum 2023
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  2. You might get a prompt inviting you to install the app (this seems a bit variable)

    • alternatively, find the Add to home screen on your browser page settings and hit that
    • this only works with Chrome on Android, and Safari on iOS.

  3. Turn on notifications when prompted (also a bit variable)

  4. Consider toning down your email notifications, as it sucks to be notified multiples times for the same thing.

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Hi Nathan,

Do you know about the Discourse Hub app for iOS and Android that can be used to access any Discourse site as a native app, or are you deliberately not confusing people with it? I use it and it works quite nicely on my iPhone.

Cheers,
matt

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I’m deliberately not confusing people with it, as it actually adds additional complexity without additional (in fact less) functionality.

Also, it doesn’t serve up notifications (at least I don’t think it does) unless one is actually hosted with Discourse, which we are not.

But perhaps I / we should at least mention it!

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You may be right - I have notifications turned on for it but I didn’t get a ping for your direct messages.

Happy for you to share this. Here are the app store links for iOS and Android: