Receive notifications via a Telegram bot, allowing them to turn off email notifications and still keep up-to-date

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Users to receive their notifications via a Telegram bot, allowing them to turn off email notifications and still keep up-to-date.

You can “like” posts, and respond to them via the bot.
Here’s a quick demo video:

For users to receive notifications

  1. Add the bot, @JaDevCoBot
  2. Send a message to the bot, you’ll receive a message back that looks like

To get notifications for Discourse, enter the ‘Chat ID’ 1234567 in your user preferences

  1. Visit your Discourse user preferences
  2. Click on the profile side menu and paste the number in the Telegram Notifications input field, which is at the bottom of the page.
  3. You should now receive notifications by telegram message!

This feature implementation is based on Telegram Notifications Plugin (discourse-telegram-notifications).