Hello Neel,

Hm, what do you mean by "notification popups"? Do you mean a dialog window? That's actually even more annoying

No not that. lol.. I meant like a square bubble on the bottom right hand side with half opacity saying "xyz created an article", "xyz created an album", etc.. and then fades after like 10 seconds later.

It's possible by creating a json call then creating your own class that will pop up at the bottom. I suggest you recycle the notification at the top (toolbar) to lessen the load

It will be good to have this included with the notification module. Since the module is already querying the server for an update every few seconds (as per the setting). it can use the returned data to send it to notification bubble and also send it to system notifications if set.

If your user is "away" it would fade away and they would never see it ?

Yeah... the notification bubble will fade away but it will be in the appropriate system notifications as per those individual settings.

Hello Neel,

In EasySocial 1.3, we have actually added something similar like Growl but this is only for news / announcements which are used by the site admins. It would really be very annoying if these growl-ish notifications keep popping up when someone updates something.

Hi Neel, you can make the toolbar float on top to prevent too much notifications (it usually slows down browsers).
Hello Mark, Yes, it's quite annoying to see growls every now and then since most browsers eat too much memory on this if there are too many. But then again, it's quite a good addition for those people who isn't much techie on creating their templates. I believe you can just add an on/off switch for this.

Hi Neel, you can make the toolbar float on top to prevent too much notifications (it usually slows down browsers).

Sorry.. I dont understand. I already do have the notifications floating on top of all pages. But I dont understand how can it prevent too much notifications since the browser still pings the server every interval to fetch new notifications anyways which already is an extra work right. I probably misunderstood what you meant

In EasySocial 1.3, we have actually added something similar like Growl but this is only for news / announcements which are used by the site admins. It would really be very annoying if these growl-ish notifications keep popping up when someone updates something.

Hi Mark, the growl for admin news / announcements is a very good addition in 1.3 and I am looking forward for that. However I do not think growl-ish notifications for feed updates are annoying at all. Infact it is beneficial for site users. I have disabled the user login / logout feed updates (which is the most annoying of all) and the growl notification bubbles are only gonna be showing updates on new ES streams and for ES-components integrations like new Komento comments, new K2 articles, forum posts, etc.. If you got a massive site with too many updates every second then yeah, it will be too much notification growls which is annoying and also a huge overload for browser and server. But for closed community and for small to medium sites, this is a very good add-on.

Why I think this is good?

1) This keeps the user browsing different section of Joomla site updated on all the activity that is going on the site while they are browsing.

2) Without this, the only option for users is to visit the community dashboard each time (something that not all users do).

3) I dont want all activities to be sent to System Notification in toolbar since the system notification is only for activities which involves the user (like comments on user posts, liking user posts, etc..). Showing all notifications in system notifications is too much and thats why growl notification will be handy.

4) One difference between Admin news/annoucement broadcast and this feed notification growl will be that unlike broadcast which shows when user logs in next time if they werent logged in at the time, this notification bubble doesnt do that. It will only show for users logged in at that time and disappears. It dosnt accumulate and show all of that when user logs in next time which is very annoying.

5) Most importantly, this growl notifications will increase user interactivity since when they see this update, they know whats happening live that time and they might then check it out in dashboard or the relevant sections... This will also increase their browsing session in my site.

Hope you can see these benefits!

Hello Neel,

Thanks for the input on this but I am still against having growl-ish notifications for stream updates as this will only annoy users. If you think that this is a worthy feature request, please submit it at http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial and let the community vote on it

I've added this request in ES Voices section: http://stackideas.com/voices/easysocial/item/436

Great