The Monastery doesn't even record update times for most nodes. I plan to change that as part of my plans, but even that probably wouldn't help you as lots of changes are likely (at least initially) to update the time on a node even though the content hasn't been updated.

But most nodes around here just don't get updated.

You might consider implementing this on the client side of things by comparing content to detect updates.

I think he wants thread changes. So when a new message is posted to a thread...

Actually... that is an interesting idea. I wonder how mozilla (and others) 'detect change' feature works if you bookmark a thread, the changing images at the top (and the chatterbox) may confuse things, but it might work.

-ben

Do you want another nodelet (or personal node) which you can populate with nodes that you want to 'watch'? That would be kinda neat if it showed if there was a new node since you last visited the thread (or clicked some button on the nodelet to clear all state, or whatever).

-ben