email notifications

Then I recommend trying the below and see how that works for you.

Should work for new and update cases. Aside from that you may need to consider setting User to Query and forming your own query against _comprofiler_plugin_activity_notifications to determine who you want to notify exactly.

I tried the last one you suggested but it didn't work.
Since the last update the one I have been using is not working anymore. I'll paste it below.
I would so love to have a way to send reliable group notifications, either with text or email. 
Any other suggestions?

I am considering relying on the in-app notifications (the blue icons), and sending AcyMailing mails - but that is not going to notify when group activity happens, and I find that if we don't push then the community just dies.

This is the one I'm using:
if ( ! $variables->getPublished() ) {
    return [];
}

return $variables->getRecipients();
 

I suggest just not replacing the GJ notifications then. Set GJ notifications to send as emails then within CB Activity > Notifications > Notify > GroupJive set "Notifications" to "Enable". This will then send an email AND log an on-site notifications. I don't have anything further to suggest at this time.

I'll be adding email support to CB Activity notifications likely in its next stable release, which will also include CB Gallery 3.0 compatibility. This will likely be done in the form of Digests. So for example a daily digest would be something like "You have 3 unread notifications. Would you like to read them now?". You'd need to setup CRON to processes these, but this would be quick and efficient instead of slamming people with 1 email per notification.

That would be a neat solution! That's the kind of thing I was considering, but it would be good to have it personalized. Could I change daliy to weekly? I guess I could in the cron.

Thanks!

The plan for the digests is to support daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly.

In a future release I'll probably add support for custom where you can specify the time offset (e.g. +2 WEEKS), but initial release will be simple to get the feature out. This will be able to inherit from a user field so you can have it per-user using a select field for example.

There will be 2 methods available. Personalized and Generic. Generic will be extremely fast as it won't personalized the email per-user and will send out a quick BCC. Personalized will run subject/body through substitutions and will be slower.

CRON would just be responsible for triggering sending of the digest emails. You'll also be able to have a Joomla task scheduler task do it as well if you wanted.

Sounds like a good solution, thanks!!