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When I read your post I was thinking: "Doesn't he remember that I can't do that yet?"
I guess you did, it was just on a time delay

What ideas have you got for the way you would be alerted to a new subscription
message? Obviously not to much in your way while watching a film.
What about a little square in the top right corner which the user could colour code
which maybe flashed for a few seconds.
so they could instantly decide to interupt thier viewing to read.

Or would you use the way Xbmc chooses to show that you have enabled an addon with a brief message at top of screen ?.

At first I will just use the XBMC notification thingy while I'm working out getting the service working and the code that handles checking the subscriptions and PMs all together.
Once that is all settled I plan to make customizable options, and I have a few ideas running around through my head. I'll be doing some experimenting to see what is possible and works well.
For instance I might have an option that when no video is playing, a dialog would pop up asking if you want to jump to the post, which would save you from having to find and browse to it.
I'm thinking I'll have to add something (some sort of dialog or such) that you can bring up in Forum Browser that lists your notifications, otherwise if, for instance, you have new posts in 5 forums plus 3 PMs, once the notification happens, you might not remember all the forums. In fact in that instance it might be best to have one notification to say you have new posts/PM's and then when you open FB you could open view the dialog I mentioned to see what they all were.

What if your away for a couple of weeks holiday and you restart your Xbmc
how would you deal with a lot of subscription updates in one go?.

Kinda covered in my previous comment, but I'll also say that right now it's just ideas, and the shape of things will become more clear once I start working on it. I'll get a clear picture of what I can/should do. I'll try some things and get your input on what's working and all that.

Just interested you may not have given it to much thought yet.
Im sure what ever you come up with will be great.

As you can see I've given it some thought, but I haven't by any means been exhaustive. It's kinda my work method. I have a basic idea, but I find it easier to work out the ideas as I go. But of course, feel free to mention any thing you think of. Even if I've already had the same idea, quite often there is something slightly different in the idea or how it's expressed that I didn't think of, or that leads to more ideas.