Android Discourse app cannot find the forum

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Hello everybody,
since this is my first post here, I think a brief intro about me is polite.

I'm a senior developer specialized mostly in Typescript/Javascript and I work with all areas of a full blown project.
Trading wise, I got into trading a few years back in crytpo and shifted from manual trading to a more mechanical approach in indices, while recently started to investigate Amibroker as I need to test ideas more in depth.

First thing I notice about Amibroker that I notice is the distinct feeling that I'm always in the loop, in one step, on one candle, that I don't even know the indx of. :smiley:
It's interesting and wierd at the same time, given I always was god before and looped, sliced, spliced, mapped and reduced arrays...

That said, I realize there will be quite a learning curve with AFL, so I'm asking you in advance to please be gentle with me when I won't get how things work even if I read most of the documentation already.

On the issue at hand, I installed Discourse on Android and when I try to find the forum, either by amibroker, forum.amibroker.com, https://forum.amibroker.com the answer I get is "No sites found. You can also enter the full domain of a Discourse community and add it!"

Does anyone know about this and how to make it work?

I googled the issue and from what I understand the app looks for basic-info.json which seems to work in a browser. I can only assume that it has to do with bots access and maybe this json is not accessible to the Discourse app?

Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
DBV

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Please note that this topic already exists:

Generally, I am not responsible for functioning or not functioning of Discourse app as I did not write it.

As you noticed the JSON file IS ACCESSIBLE.

I strongly recommend using just web browser on your mobile phone to access the forum. The web browser works out of the box, without installation, without consuming resources and equally well if not better than the app.

The "discourse app" is nothing more than web view (embedded web browser) and brings ZERO benefits as compared to just using web browser.

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@DBV, Discourse is a PWA.

Just use Chrome browser on the phone and you'll be able to "install" it like if it was a native app on your Android.

Navigate to the forum address, click on the 3 dots on the upper right and from the menu select "install app".

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Thanks for the replies @beppe and @Tomasz! Got it working as a PWA!

I should have indeed posted in the existing topic. I'll pay more attention to this matter going forward.

Thanks again,
PWAs rule!