Phone app + web service? Like twitter - the user just cant write messages, all messages are from bots. And after the event is over - message get deleted from service. Like "Homer Jay is Streaming Simpsons - Bart vs the Space Aliens" message gets botted in when Homer starts streming. If im following Homer Jay my (device) would receive the message from the site, and would sound the non intrusive/obtrusive nuclear meltdown alarm combined with sub diving alarm combined to crying children alarm on full blast and would not stop until user gives the minimum 256 bit entropy password to it or until Homer stops the stream and message get automatically deleted.

Eh?

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Reading whole post? Who the f does something like that? I for one will never start something stupid like that!
(I should learn to do that one day....maybe)

Mobile Push is compatible with Amazon’s own Device Messaging platform as well as Apple’s Push Notification Service and Cloud Messaging from Google. Notification messages sent to a mobile endpoint can appear as message alerts, badge updates, or even sound alerts.

^ HAHA totally thought this was a spam post and was about to report it

ComJak

WarFrame has a notification system like this: https://twitter.com/WarframeAlerts .. used for different purpose, but a notification system nonetheless.

I'm sure there are plenty of twitter apps that can use filters to match with only the interesting alerts and turn those into desktop notifications, no twitter account needed of course.

Main difference to RWRWatcher would be platformlessness, it's possible to set it up on mobiles and PC I believe, potentially re-using applications you already might have for tracking other alert worthy feeds.

Luck of Duck, try hooking this up in Linux in your favorite RSS reader/alert application: http://www.modulaatio.com/rwr_server_li ... server.xml

It's currently set to change when there's at least 1 player on a server, and it favors promoting the server with highest player count.

Seems to work pretty nicely with Feed Notifier in Windows at least, the much I've tried it (3 minutes), just saw someone joining Beerdrinkers.

Quite RSS at least works, of course with this I need to set up the feed reader my self, by that I mean, I need to specify the update, update rate and sound notification, spec notification window to pop up when RWR feed updates and since Manjaro has philosofy of loading the kitchen sink and nothing more on startup I also might have to add Quite to the boot (dog, help me) (possibly).

So for lazy ass user that is sort of involved task (takes like 3 minutes for a user like me who has never before used this particular reader, or much of RSS readers..) (erm, not including time to add it to the boot conf, I will do that only if I have to)

There's also the ATOM variant here http://modulaatio.com/rwr_server_list/p ... r_atom.xml, just so you know, not that I'd actually think you'd use it more likely than RSS, but you never know.

All sorts of different kind of feeds could be added of course on the server, it's fairly simple to add them too, but I'll wait for Steam to happen and to see on what sort of level Steam integration will happen, as if e.g. the server list will be primarily moved there somehow, it'll have impact to this stuff.

I'm personally still using Feed Notifier on Windows hooked up with that same server promotion feed, indeed it helps in tracking when people are gathering for a game.