Yeap I’m the same! 
I was just nosing at the Discourse app update and stumbled across the bug. Notifications are the only thing it’s good for!
The new update is not great. It now kicks you over to Safari each time, rather than doing it all in-app, which was much tidier.
I don’t know why people want apps, the experience in a web browser is much superior in most cases nowadays.
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I’ve just downloaded the app, looks good. At least now I can get notifications on feeds that are of interest.
The Discourse app is basically a slightly fancier web browser. It just gives you notifications, but opens the actual forum in Safari.
You can also add multiple Discourse forums if you follow more than one 
I don’t see the point of the Discourse app now. I can live without the notifications.
Even when it was just a wrapper I felt it served more purpose than it does now 
I’m actually struggling to get rid of the notifications 
It does seem a little pointless now, and unless I’m missing something, it doesn’t tell you what the notification relates to?
If you go to Discourse’s settings in the iOS Settings app, there’s an option to open the forum in-app rather than booting you to Safari.
Why he switched to this behaviour and hid the setting away like this, I don’t know.
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amazing, thanks!
Most likely so that your history remains in Safari and can be synced across devices; something the in-app browser can’t do (I think the in-app SafariViewController only shares cookies with the main Safari, but doesn’t keep track of the history at all).
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