"Letter for you!"

Almost all the services on which I am registered provide the opportunity to notify about various events - a new comment, notifications about friendship, birthdays and so on. But is it so convenient and is each new comment worth a separate letter, and is it as fast as we would like? Not really. In my understanding, a mailbox serves as a repository of letters to which I can return. I do not like my inbox scored with the letters “New comment, new message,” I still delete them. I was notified and I deleted the letter, I have no reason to return to this message.



So, raking the mail again, I realized what I was missing. Namely - event notifications on icq, jabber, MSN or mobile. I consistently sit in icq and will be immensely happy if I have, for example, 4 contacts in icq: habrabot, vkontakte, linkedin, lastfm. It will take a couple of seconds to read the new message and does not require logging in, checking email, etc. Responsiveness and interactivity increases significantly, and implementation is not more complicated than sending mail.
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As for implementation, the interface needs to be expanded and, in addition to “notify me about this and that”, add the item “notify via mail, icq, MSN, SMS”, and if there is such a miracle as jabber we can use different libraries for WEB applications and use gateways for communication with various Internet messengers, saving themselves from the problems of implementing each protocol separately.

However, I would not be surprised that this is already there, so the first place this article is aimed at hone the proposal in the comments and encourage developers to go beyond the usual and come to the framework simple and convenient, creating new standards.