Question

How can i use django-notifications or django-signals to make something like facebook updates notification that shows in the user profile if any other user likes or posts comments on user’s blog or posts?

Answer 1

For the activity feed, we use https://github.com/justquick/django-activity-stream Documentation: http://justquick.github.com/django-activity-stream/

For the js widget and live notifications, we use https://github.com/subsume/django-subscription yourlabs example, it depends on redis but you can easily add a model backend if you really want to. Redis is a good choices it’s half a megabyte of dependency. Documentation: http://django-social.rtfd.org

There is no application that does meta-notifications (“notification groupping”) properly but a lot of research has been done. Basically you need another app, with a MetaNotification model, and something (management command, signal …) that will visit notifications and create MetaNotification instances. Then you should display MetaNotification lists rather than Activity or notification list.

Finnaly, if you want configurable email notifications then you can use django-notifications: https://github.com/jtauber/django-notification or this app which looks nicer: http://www.tomaz.me/django-notifications/

I’m not aware of any app that does it all. It is going to be some work for you.

“It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock’n’roll” or as I like to say “patience and perseverance” 🙂