Push like notifications app

[Guy Bowden]

Hi,

I'm looking for an app that will allow me to 'push' notifications/messages to a user / users / groups via the admin system.

examples:

show all users a notice about a new feature

show users a notice about planned maintenance

and other such useful things!

it would be able to have a 'dismiss'/'delete' notification feature. Plus read/unread and so on.

Admin would enter the admin site, add in a new notice, select who should see it, perhaps with optional publish / unpublish dates and a level (info/warning/danger etc)

On the front end a templatetag would be used to fetch all notices to display, and then display them, marking them as read when they're displayed. There would be a simple way to dismiss a message and never see it again.

Anything like that exist? Seems fairly simple to create (don't they all!) if not.

Cheers

Guy 

[Cal Leeming [iops.io]]

Cal

Really depends on your use case.

If you're talking about less than 100k notifications in the life time of the application, and a throughput of under 10 reqs/sec, then you might get away with storing in your relational DB.

However if you're looking for a high throughput messaging system, multiple delivery channels, or large amounts of notifications, then you'd probably want to look into using something like Redis (or RabbitMQ), or perhaps *insert NoSQL technology here*.

 

Cheers

Guy 

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[Cal Leeming [iops.io]]

That was strange, my email decided to send as I was typing the rest of my reply :X See in-line again.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Cal Leeming [iops.io] <c...@iops.io> wrote:

Cal

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Guy Bowden <guy.b...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking for an app that will allow me to 'push' notifications/messages to a user / users / groups via the admin system.

 

These might be useful;

https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications

https://github.com/justquick/django-activity-stream

It's also worth mentioning that I found that by searching for "django notifications" in Google, did you already check these out?

[Guy Bowden]

Thanks for that.

I guess with these two examples they're building blocks to build an admin announcements service rather than a complete app itself - we'd still create the 'annoucement' app containing the message, expiry, 'who to' and so on - and these apps would handle the distribution.

I admit to glossing over the 'django-notifications' app having previously used 'django-notification' - which is completely different!

Guy