Do you know anything more ? Unfortunately I cannot help you. But I’m using nextcloud 9 and I’m wondering as well why pop up reminder doesn’t work. I think in 9 the normal reminder with alarm should not work. I think this option is just if you are using the calender app with your cell phone or maybe outlook. (But I’m not sure !) But as I see pop up function, I thought, that this option could work in browser.
It IS implemented. You need to check out your Nextcloud config:
Run occ config:list and search for “dav” configuration JSON block. In case you have "sendEventRemindersMode": "occ", you need to run another command in your cron, to be able to send email reminders. This command is: occ dav:send-event-reminders
This configuration is from old Nextcloud installations. If you have a new Nextcloud versión (ex: +20), you must remove that setting or set it to “backgroundjob” by doing: occ config:app:set dav sendEventRemindersMode --value backgroundjob