On Mar 21, 2013, at 1:35 PM, Asher Feldman afeldman@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