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Your homepage feed will now have a singular, consolidated feed that aggregates content from your starred repositories and followed users. As part of this update: The content from the “Following” feed has been combined with the “For you” Feed, so you’ll have one singular location to discover content.
We’ve given the entire interface a fresh and visually appealing makeover ✨ What this means for youIf you’re an existing “Following” feed user, your feed content should be familiar to what you’ve been seeing on your “Following” tab. And now, with our new filtering control, you can fine-tune your content preferences to further curate your feed. If you’re an existing “For you” feed user, we’ve also defaulted your filtering to showcase what you currently see on your “For you” tab. The new filtering control allows you to further customize your feed by including or excluding specific content types. New users, we’ve got you covered with default settings that ensure you’re seeing the most relevant content. Dive in, personalize, and make the feed your own! Sept. 12th UpdateWith the latest feed update on September 6, 2023, we made changes to the underlying technology of the feed to improve overall platform performance. As a result, we removed the functionality for “push events for repositories a user is subscribed to”. We don’t take these changes lightly, but as our community continues to grow tremendously, we have to prioritize our availability, user experience, and performance. Thanks to feedback from the community, we have updated our changelog to clarify and have fixed the following bugs from the initial September 6th release:
We understand that many of you are upset with the recent changes to your feed. We should have done a better job communicating recent changes and how those decisions relate to our broader platform goals. Your continued feedback is invaluable as we evolve and continue to strive to provide a first-class developer experience that helps every developer be happier and more productive. |
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its comically bad. I only unchecked the recommendations, and now I get basically nothing: compared to previously, where I would get helpful information on people starring or forking my repos: https://github.com/dashboard-feed also, here is a thread from yesterday, where over 300 people are voicing similar concerns: |
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Please, GitHub, listen to the feedback of the users and keep the option to have a chronological timeline like we had until yesterday. You tried the same about 10 months ago and the experiment failed, and yesterday it happened all over again. The chronological feed works great for a lot of people, it helps discover new repos and people to follow, and it motivates working on things because you can see who starred your repo. And best of all, because it's chronological, you know when you are caught up reading because you recognize what you already saw before. Having the algorithmic option on the side doesn't hurt, and it might be the preference of some people, but please, pretty please with cherry on top, just leave the option that's been there for years and works great. Not everything has to become like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. We are here to get work done, not engage with whatever your algorithm thinks we like. |
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It is very bad interface, and it is not useful, stared repositories for my following are missed and don't show correctly. Please revert this change to old version |
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I used the old following feed to discover new repositories I wouldn't have discovered otherwise based on the stars of people I followed, and there isn't any way for me to see that anymore it seems. It shows me nothing at all and there isn't any option to see things that were perfectly functional before this change? Why is every single website these days implementing anti-user-friendly features in favor of increasingly over-complicated algorithms. |
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Sorry, can you please inform me who are the designers responsible for this change? They should be fired. |
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I want to see commit messages from repos I want to watch in chronological order. I cannot get that now as there is no option to view commits from watched repos and no way to revert my timeline to previous from this bs |
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Respect your users and their confidence in you, "Microsoft" GitHub. |
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@tuves I have |
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@tuves I want to see the people starring my repos, and the people who have started following me, and I want it in chronological order. It's impossible to recreate that with the new feed, and the design is absurdly bad for something that's been under development for so long. For example, with nothing in the filters checked, it shows "8". After checking just "following", the filter count decreases to "7". ...WHAT? The counter is nonsensical. And the actual design is now taking up an enormous amount of space with duplicate information and huge margins: How many times do I need to see the same icon? Please give me back the chronological, non-algorithmic dump of current information that was relevant to me. This new thing is comically bad, and I'm angry that you've taken something of value from me. |
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Not one bit. |
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The old feed was useful to me. The new one doesn't give me anything I want. Not even commits from the repos I follow. Where is all the stuff? You said you "combined" them, but I can't see any of the stuff I used to. |
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@tuves Github can't keep doing this to us. Give us the old home feed. This new home feed is incredibly stressful and useless. |
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If it is an improvement, please give an option to configure OLD feed. If the motivation behind is to earn some money with "sponsored" content you are contemplating, then I hate you. |
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Felt compelled to leave a comment. The feed change is useless to me and I really wish it would stop changing radically. I want to see activity of those I follow in chronological order. Not looking for intelligent facebook algos or needing to adjust filtering. Just want a simple timeline. Thanks for hearing our feedback on this. |
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You say customize, but how the heck can I bring back chronological order to my feed? Seriously, GitHub, why do you even host this feedback platform if the point is just to ignore tons and tons and tons of user feedback? |
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I'll be frank, no matter how cool you make the "for you" stuff, the homepage still isn't great for myself and I believe a lot of people. I think the most common thing I do is:
Idk, I know I can just search but I'm dumb and a lot of the time I can't think of the repo name, I'm not even thinking as I do it, it's just daily habit, as soon as I stop to think of a repo name and where it exists, I lose flow as a dashboard goes, it's not great for this most common use case. I think a very simple solution is to allow the user to customise what their dashboard looks like. Currently 99% of the information on the github dashboard I do not care about. I'd happilly remove it all for a screen that shows my profile, orgs and repos. There's nothing else more important, although the social stuff is cool. That can exist along side it, but these fundamentals need to be nailed otherwise you are failing your core user base. |
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Aaaaaaaand it's broken again. Still. Some more. People I'm following did things I'm interested in within the last couple of days. New feed doesn't show it, old feed does. |
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The feed has become a total useless piece of junk again. On desktop I use an extension to get the old feed back. On mobile that doesn't work and the first item that shows in my feed is from a week ago. Will github ever get their shit together again? I know it's wishful thinking 🥲 |
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Why do I keep getting shown things I have flagged as not being interested in? |
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what do people hate about every social media platform?
can't wait to see more ads for copilot in the "for you" feed 😆 |
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literally came here to say that I forgot there is a Feed in GitHub. it is so bad I deselected all the fields many months ago because it is so bad, and forgot there is Feed in GitHub. well done. nice product. |
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Well, that's useless now. I've unchecked everything until there's an option I can check to only show activity on my own repos. I don't have accounts on social media (aside from a Mastodon account which I basically use only for posting, not reading) for a reason. I don't need the noise. |
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Feed is even more broken again. Activity in repos I'm following is missing, and things I explicitly said I want to see less of is showing up again. And there's still no control for tuning my feed preferences over time. |
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The feed sucks in all browsers! I have to clear the cache and refresh to get any type of update, and when it does update, it's almost completely empty. It doesn't respect the filters I have set, and there's no pattern as to what the feed is going to show me. The only consistent thing about the feed is that it is consistently inconsistent and unreliable. |
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Still not as good as it was before you started making all the changes. Can we please go back to the way it was? |
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I posted this in #127885, but just found this big thread here: Generally speaking, the "purpose" of a feed is to increase user engagement and make discovery possible/easier. I don't think this is an issue for GitHub as it's not a social media company relying on ads the same way Facebook is! Luckily there's a way to turn off all the junk/noise using filters. What would be NICE is if it we could have the ability to customize what's shown there. Here are some examples of what would be very useful to me in a screenshot: |
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How can I switch that "feed" off and get something more more useful? Maybe a listing of my repos in an order that i can set as I see fit? |
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I've effectively disabled this "new feed" since it came out. Absolutely useless. Why? It creates notifications that have absolutely nothing to do with the stuff I am actually working on. Just checked. Yep, still the same. Will Github ever make it actually useful? |
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Sept. 12th Update
With the latest feed update on September 6, 2023, we made changes to the underlying technology of the feed to improve overall platform performance. As a result, we removed the functionality for “push events for repositories a user is subscribed to”. We don’t take these changes lightly, but as our community continues to grow tremendously, we have to prioritize our availability, user experience, and performance.
Thanks to feedback from the community, we have updated our changelog to clarify and have fixed the following bugs from the initial September 6th release: