Notifications module

I don't really know. I'm working on Subscriptions because I need its functionality and because I enjoy doing it. Since I use it myself for running websites for people that I know and care about, I have a personal interest to make and keep it working perfectly, but I have no real interest in evaluating and testing other similar modules.

Jose received a contract for working on a Subscriptions-type module late last fall. He joined our team for a few days, but it turned out that we couldn't work together. Apparently because he had funding for this purpose, he started a new module, and the result is Notifications.

i'd also welcome a technical review from one of the developers comparing these two modules in reference to all core functions (with reference to functionality supported by other add-on modules)...

i'm certain that 90+ percent of new users hit both of these - notifications and subscriptions - and then don't know which one to choose or why!

Today I tried notifications.
From what I have seen, the 2 modules are quite similar. Subscriptions has been translated in more languages, Notifications have only german and netherlands.
Subscriptions use combobox for selecting type of content or taxonomy to block, instead notifications use many checkbox.
Subscriptions has more options in the UI , and from my opinion, it is easier to understand, and I prefer it.
There are 2 features that subscriptions doesn't have, compared to notifications:
1. notifications manages rss, but only if you have feedapi installed. I didn't try it because I'm not able to use feedapi, it looks quite hard to install because it depends on many modules.
2. Notifications has a module that uses its infrastructure called mailtoweb, that allows users to reply via email and their posts are published online.

On the other side, I must say that using notifications, I didn't find any "subscribe" link or block when I'm reading a node. It seems that users should enable their notifications first for some type of contents, but I didn't find any mode to subscribe a single node.
I think this feature exists, but it is not intuitive.
Another great feature of subscription is the capability to subscribe single blog, instead with notifications you can subscribe the "blog" type of content.

It must be clear that I tried notifications only for 2 3 hours, so it is possible that I didn't find what I searched. Anyway, subscriptions is easier and more immediate.

@drein - i've used both over the years and have stuck with notifications, a few points:

very easy to set up - those buttons/options you seek are in each content type once enabled, goto edit (for content type) and you can set the 'notify' option appear not only within the link, but also in teaser, in the node/add form etc (or you can set all users to auto-subscribe to their own posts and/or things they comment on)

well supported and documented, large user community

has it's own lightweight messaging infrastructure and OG notifications leverages this, many OG users also use notifications because it allows an OG member to automagically get updates on anything in a group (or just a type of content in a group)

very customizable messages for sending out (tokenized out the wazoo)

other stuff, but those things jump to mind...

I was just looking for a comparison as well.

Have installed notifications and messaging when I found this module...It would be nice if they would cooperate instead of splitting.

@giorgio79: You're barking up the wrong tree. Compare the creation dates of the project nodes, please...

No barking here :) as I am posting the same for Notifications...It seems like a waste of effort without pointing fingers at anyone...I am looking ahead instead, maybe you guys can work out sg,

Here is my "bark" at the other tree :)
http://drupal.org/node/402154

Cross referencing:

#218708: How does this relate to existing OG subscriptions?
#214578: Please fuse with the subscriptions module?
#402154: Cooperation with Subscriptions
#214580: Fuse with notifications module

Neither Jose nor chx really mention the differences that required a fork. If anyone knows, spread the wisdom.

And some decent answers: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12645

I attempted to use Notifications, but could not get it to work correctly. Notifications does not send HTML emails correctly. See this issue:

http://drupal.org/node/466920

Thus, I use subscriptions, since it will at least work for most of my needs, except for the scalability issues in digest emails.

#341500: Notify users of specific node events

You can use Notifications to notify garbage to thousands anyway.