Introducing Watchlist: notify users when their friends are online
"Are any of the people I follow online right now?"
This is one of the questions end users often ask when using a community-focused app.
With today’s release on Pusher Channels, you can easily enable your end users to create a watchlist and observe the connection status of the people they follow. It can be a followers or friends list, depending on the realtime app you’re building.
Online and offline status notifications help to keep connected groups of users in touch. There are countless scenarios that rely on knowing when people of interest are online: friends on a social media platform for example; colleagues in a collaboration tool; and team members in multiplayer games all need to understand the availability of their followers.
With Watchlists, you’ll be able to build user-specific online status notifications more easily.