Steps to reproduce
- Someone posts a message on your talk page. Or pings you using Echo (eg [[User:whatever]])
Expected results
- Some sort of notification is received
Actual results
- No notification is given. No push notifications, no in-app notifications, no icon; zilch. No way of knowing they received a message, at all.
Environments observed
App version: 6.7.4
OS versions: iOS 14.4
Also see:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(WMF)#What_we've_got_here_is_failure_to_communicate_(some_mobile_editors_you_just_can't_reach)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Archive329#Block_review:_Wilkja19
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_186#Notification_to_iOS_app_user
This is a serious issue. There is no way to communicate with iOS app users, as far as I can tell. Various editors are blocked for "Communication is required" when we can't even communicate with them. There is a link to a user's talk page, but it's buried within the settings, and there's no reason you'd look for it if one didn't already know what a talk page was and that they should frequently visit it.