On Mar 21, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Asher Feldman <afeldman(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
To avoid any misunderstandings, we are not planning to do any watchlist-related
notifications for Echo.
That's unfortunate. But regardless, narrow product roadmaps shouldn't limit how
we resuse any product or technology to improve the site or fix a broken feature.
To be more specific. I think the gist I got from product is that watchlists are stuff that
are "streamlike" in behavior, not directly actionable in themselves. Stream
stuff goes in Flow. An analogy would be Facebook Messages vs. Facebook Feed. The former
would be in Echo, the latter in Flow.
Eventually it is possible that Flow would obsolete the need for the Watchlist page as you
mentioned (I'll defer to Brandon).
I believe in the meantime the Microdesign team has some planns to update some of the UI of
watchlist, but it's UI only, and relatively small
<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Micro_Design_Improvements/Watchlist_UI>.
Take care,
terry