Confining notification banners to just the height and placement of the status bar must have sounded fairly bizarre at the time (perhaps even now if there's anybody left who hasn't heard of it).
Some no doubt questioned how it would be possible to squeeze an entire notification into a bar barely two and a half inches across, scrolling was the key and ultimately the key to the tweaks success ad-infinitum.
There's always been a huge market for system-wide tweaks and DietBulletin certainly fits nicely into that category, whether it be text, Facebook, Twitter or even email - all were compatible and all scrolled for easy reading.
That was way back on late iOS5, early iOS6 and here we are now on iOS7. It's always nice to see community support for long running tweaks and DietBulletin has a huge, almost cult following.
So much so is the community spirit, presumably he also uses it personally, that the infamous developer Ryan Petrich has added it to his already huge list of tweaks to update.
Petrich is a prolific updater, it seems that he genuinely feels dissatisfied if the cummunity isn't happy and he knows exactly how to make that happen - by keeping much adored tweaks fully updated.
This is where TinyBar comes in, a tweak I personally use while Petrich keeps working.
TinyBar has the same basic features as DietBulletin, the status bar arrangement, the scrolling - even stickying notifications to the bar until you've physically removed them.
It is a nice alternative, it works well and is certainly worth praise for what it does. But it's not DietBulletin. It's not as refined or as smooth and something feels a bit like it's not as well integrated as it could've been.
That being said, it's a perfectly acceptable alternative to DietBulletin for the time being - you definitely want the precision and finess of the Petrich tweak when it becomes available however.
Petrichs update list can be found here - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AhDe5xBEmmv0dEJsVi1YU0JYYVpvbHlnaEdVaTBFMXc&usp=drive_web
You can find TinyBar under Alex Zielenski's repo by adding the following source - repo.alexzielenski.com
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