GitHub now showing releases from starred repos in main activity dashboard

GitHub now showing releases from starred repos in main activity dashboard(github.community)

4 points by asaibx 5 years ago | 3 comments

asaibx 5 years ago |

Like many others it seems (for example here [0], or this issue [1] that amusingly seems to think it's a problem caused deliberately by the VSCode developers), I have been wondering why this recent change has occurred in GitHub's activity feed and whether there was a way to disable it.

The linked thread provides both some insight into the first question (from a GH product manager who explains the dubious case for including unwanted information in the main feed), as well as a number of hacks and workarounds to resolve the second one (using Block element in uBlock Origin with ##div.release as suggested by ozon2 seems to work perfectly).

I would be interested to hear what others here think about the proposed change in direction for the activity feed (i.e., to make it more about "news from your wider network" rather than "notifications you have intentionally signed up for").

[0]: https://github.community/t/release-notifications-from-starre...

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/125951

ezekg 5 years ago |

This was so incredibly annoying that I added this uBlock Origin filter:

    github.com##div.release > .body > .border-bottom.py-3.color-border-secondary.flex-items-baseline.d-flex

Also, I unstarred pretty much everything.

asaibx 5 years ago | |

You beat me to it. :) Yes, blocking ##div.release in uBlock Origin did the trick for me as well.

> Also, I unstarred pretty much everything.

Unfortunately, this seems to be a common theme in all of the discussions I have read so far. It's really an unfortunate outcome for projects that have nothing to do with this, but perhaps a wave of "unstarring" across the site will cause GitHub to reconsider this change.