Thanks for testing!
You mean you have this option in Vivaldi for the fairphone forum?
Btw: my version is also Vivaldi Browser 6.1.3035.258, on Android 13 (but on FP4).
OK. It is a shortcut that opens the forum page. I think it is due to the translation into German (in Vivaldi). Formerly âAPPâ now âAdd to home screenâ which I think is the more correct name because before no independent APP was created, but also only a shortcut to the web page.
OK. Es ist ein Shortcut, der die Forumseite öffnet. Ich denke es liegt an der Ăbersetzung ins deutsche (bei Vivaldi). FrĂŒher âAPPâ jetzt âZum Startbildschirm hinzufĂŒgenâ was meiner Meinung die korrektere Bezeichnung ist da frĂŒher ja keine eigenstĂ€ndige APP kreirt wurde, sondern auch nur ein Shortcut auf die Webseite.
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Are you sure thereâs no difference between the two apart from the naming? I donât use Vivaldi on the phone, but in Firefox (or Fennec, which I use) thereâs a difference between adding a website shortcut to the home screen and installing a website as an App, old topic here, but this hasnât changed for me since ⊠Firefox 82: Force page shortcut onto home screen instead of installing a PWA.
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Yes, exactly, there is a difference.
âZum Startbildschirm hinzufĂŒgenâ is also there for me but itâs only a shortcut to open the page in the browser (,e.g. Vivaldi).
âApp installierenâ would install it as PWA independently. And itâs there for other pages e.g. when I open the Discourse or Murena forum etc.
And when I switch Vivaldi to English language it shows âInstall appâ on pages where it works and âAdd to Home screenâ where it doesnât.
@Volker
Da ich diese Option nicht nutze habe ich die PWA erstellung nicht recht auf dem Schirm.
Das Vivaldi Forum hat sich darĂŒber jedoch schon unterhalten :
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As it turns out: yes.
A few weeks ago I added this Mastodon verification link:
Strictly speaking an <a> tag is not allowed in the head section. As confirmed in various topics on meta.discourse.org this breaks the ability to save the site as PWA.
Iâve tested this on our sandbox instance and can confirm that adding the Mastodon link disables the PWA feature.
EDIT: it was suggested on meta.discourse.org to move the Mastodon verification link to the siteâs footer. @paulakreuzer After making this change I would like to hear from you if the verification is still valid on your end. Let me know when thatâs convenient for you.
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Thanks for caring for this so quickly!
Sounds convincing what you write. Unfortunately my browser still doesnât allow me to install the forum as an app (even if I understand that with the change it should work now).
Btw: Iâm very sure the âfeatureâ also disappeared from the company homepage (fairphone.com) during the last 8 days, too. About 1-2 weeks ago I still could add it as PWA but trying again today I no longer could.
Tested with Ecosia and while I can add Facebook as App I cant do so with the forum
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I havenât changed it yet because I donât want to break anything on the Mastodon side. Iâll make the change once @paulakreuzer is available. Or maybe @urs_lesse can assist?
You folks are all so impatient⊠
www and shop are undergoing major restructuring so it could very well be that PWA functionality is broken.
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I guess if it breaks anything, Iâd only notice it just like everyone from the publicly visible first link in our profile at https://social.fairphone.community/@WeAreFairphone. Marking @Ingo here as well who took care of the links.
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I just wanted to test if its Vivaldi or general to help as to me it also read as if it was changed alreadyâŠ
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Indeed, that sentence can be interpreted in two ways. Apologies for the confusion.
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UPDATE
I have now made the change. This means that the site can now be saved as PWA. 
I did notice that the Mastodon verification link is still somewhat visible in the HTML code but Iâm not sure if thatâs good enough for Mastodon. Iâm sure one of you will let me know if verification is now broken. 
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I have actually followed this topic silently (until today), yet I did try if the âInstall Appâ option was provided to me in the /e/OS default browser yesterday â it didnât appear then. I have now tried again and itâs there! 
Now when I launch the new app, the forum view I get is nearly identical to the browser app view (the latter just adds the address bar). So perhaps someone can briefly explain to me what the added value of the app is â is it that Iâll get (more) visible or audible notifications on my FP3 when someone replies to me here in the forum etc. ⊠or is there something else I might have missed?
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Try moving it to the âheaderâ section instead of âheadâ. My Mastodon is verified and I can still install it as a PWA.
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I canât really say when/how often the Mastodon link verification is checked. Maybe wait a couple of days and check if itâs still there (it was a minute ago).
Initially I moved it from head to footer but that caused the URL to appear in an unexpected section of the HTML code and it was encoded in such a manner that Mastodon wouldnât be able to read it.
Now I moved it from footer to header and all looks good. 
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Some first experience: For testingâs sake, I kept the forum tab in my (desktop computer) browser closed for the last hour or so and kept the newly installed Fairphone Community Forum app (as well as Wi-Fi) running on my FP3. However, a recently reply to an ongoing private forum message that I am tracking did not translate into a notification in the notification bar of my FP3.
Maybe it helps to use a âlinkâ element instead of an âaâ element? For the verification it doesnât make a difference.
<link rel="me" href="https://social.fairphone.community/@WeAreFairphone" />
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Perfect!
I moved the verification URL from header to head and replaced a with link. Works as expected!
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