MangoLassi mobile app...
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I see no reason for an app. But then I do not keep many browser tabs open on my iPhone. So it is easy to get back to ML
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Yes there is no real technical reason for an app, but there is definitely marketing reasons. Here are some advantages I can think of with the app.
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Notifications - All the people on this thread are fairly active and check ML whether or not they have mobile notifications. The people that aren't as active would benefit the most from notifications
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Marketing - Mobile app is definitely a bonus to marketing to new users and vendors. Potential vendors would love to hear about app activity and total downloads. You also have the ability to push notifications such as Mangocon in one week or any other major news.
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Agenda for Mangocon - Boom put the agenda on the mobile app. You could even use GPS location settings for the rooms, bars, national park, etc.
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Chat - Chat could be a big deal for new users who might be a bit shy on the forum. Get them involved in the chat by connecting them with a group public chat. It's much harder to go and start messaging people to initiate a chat.
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Contests - Run vendor contests on the app. You can send out push notifications once a month or whatever you decide to run the contests. This will definitely improve participation
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Events - Calendar with events that may interest ML users.
All this stuff is pretty easy to do
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Bad enough I have you sordid lot in my browser
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@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Notifications - All the people on this thread are fairly active and check ML whether or not they have mobile notifications. The people that aren't as active would benefit the most from notifications
Mobile app had that. It was just too annoying
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@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Marketing - Mobile app is definitely a bonus to marketing to new users and vendors. Potential vendors would love to hear about app activity and total downloads. You also have the ability to push notifications such as Mangocon in one week or any other major news.
That's true and controlling the marketing to it could be far better. The ads on the mobile page are awful (but again, could be fixed with a better mobile experience, as well.)
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@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Agenda for Mangocon - Boom put the agenda on the mobile app. You could even use GPS location settings for the rooms, bars, national park, etc.
That would be very cool.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Notifications - All the people on this thread are fairly active and check ML whether or not they have mobile notifications. The people that aren't as active would benefit the most from notifications
Mobile app had that. It was just too annoying
Notifications on the lock screen might be nice. Could cut down on your email notification costs.
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@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Chat - Chat could be a big deal for new users who might be a bit shy on the forum. Get them involved in the chat by connecting them with a group public chat. It's much harder to go and start messaging people to initiate a chat.
That could be an interesting idea. Now to find out what the effort is for that lift.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Chat - Chat could be a big deal for new users who might be a bit shy on the forum. Get them involved in the chat by connecting them with a group public chat. It's much harder to go and start messaging people to initiate a chat.
That could be an interesting idea. Now to find out what the effort is for that lift.
The current built in chat UI is horrible. Chat itself works fine, but the UI is horrible.
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@JaredBusch It's built on NodeBB not something you can really correct.
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@zuphzuph said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@JaredBusch It's built on NodeBB not something you can really correct.
Sure you can.
- Write a custom plugin to redo the UI
- Submit a pull request directly to nodeBB with updates.
Neither of those are a skill I have so I have to rely on others.
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@JaredBusch said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@zuphzuph said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@JaredBusch It's built on NodeBB not something you can really correct.
Sure you can.
- Write a custom plugin to redo the UI
- Submit a pull request directly to nodeBB with updates.
Neither of those are a skill I have so I have to rely on others.
And if there is an API, even a desktop app would be very possible.
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It would be cool if you could integrate something that uses the slack protocol into the ML chat. Then you could use any number of clients to access it... not that I use the chat feature that often.
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@coliver said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
It would be cool if you could integrate something that uses the slack protocol into the ML chat. Then you could use any number of clients to access it... not that I use the chat feature that often.
XMPP is more general.
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@coliver said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
It would be cool if you could integrate something that uses the slack protocol into the ML chat. Then you could use any number of clients to access it... not that I use the chat feature that often.
Preference really... I use chat extensively with @zuphzuph and a few others because I don't want to install a chat client on my work computer so I use that instead. I also chat through it a ton on my phone.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Notifications - All the people on this thread are fairly active and check ML whether or not they have mobile notifications. The people that aren't as active would benefit the most from notifications
Mobile app had that. It was just too annoying
I would like notifications. I can either disable them completely or swipe them away on my lock screen. I don't want email notifications in addition to app notifications. It's just too much.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@coliver said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
It would be cool if you could integrate something that uses the slack protocol into the ML chat. Then you could use any number of clients to access it... not that I use the chat feature that often.
XMPP is more general.
Right, I was thinking of some of the cool things that Slack and it's derivatives are doing in the chat space. XMPP could also do the majority of those things though.
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@scottalanmiller said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
@IRJ said in MangoLassi mobile app...:
- Agenda for Mangocon - Boom put the agenda on the mobile app. You could even use GPS location settings for the rooms, bars, national park, etc.
That would be very cool.
There probably isn't enough time to implement a full featured app before mangocon, but this is a good starting point.
