Watcher
Watcher offers your site's users, registered and anonymous visitors, a way to easily watch nodes for changes and new comments without having to post themselves.
Feature overview
- Lets users watch nodes for changes or new comments being posted without having to post themselves.
- Uses AJAX to toggle watching for a smooth user experience.
- Allows both anonymous and registered users to watch nodes.
- Supports email notifications being sent when both or either of the above occurs.
- Template-based notification messages using the Token module - edit the templates to your liking!
- Provides a binder with an overview of the nodes you watch. From the binder you can also toggle email notifications for each node you watch.
- Users may choose to publish the binder so that other users can see what they're watching, providing a form of social bookmarking.
- Uses a queue-based email dispatcher to handle large numbers of notifications.
- Users can opt to automatically watch nodes they create or comment on.
- User settings can have default values, set by the site owner, that can be customized and overridden by the user.
- Highly customizable and configurable user interface that is themeable.
- Designed with usability and exceptional user experience as a high priority.
Watcher was developed to fill a gap that has existed for a long time. Even though there are several subscription and notification modules out there, none is both easy to use or particularly specialized and allows instant (or near instant) notifications. Watcher is not a general solution to notifications but caters to the needs of community sites.
Watcher requires the Token module to be installed.
For a comparison of notification modules, please see this feature matrix.
The initial development of Watcher was sponsored by Wordsy. Watcher was developed and is being maintained by Jakob Persson of NodeOne.
Incompatibility with the Me Aliases module has been reported and it is being looked into. Until the issue has been resolved Watcher will not work as long as the Me Aliases module is enabled.
Version 1.x for Drupal 6 is out now! Many thanks to all of you who have helped me by reporting bugs and issues!
Releases
| Official releases | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.2 | 2009-May-10 | 65.02 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 6.x |  |
| 5.x-1.6 | 2009-Feb-01 | 54.99 KB | Download · Release notes | Recommended for 5.x | |
| Development snapshots | Date | Size | Links | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2009-May-11 | 65.02 KB | Download · Release notes | Development snapshot |  |
