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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: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/66244 |
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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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New feed continues to be useless @ettaboyle and @tuves . I'm still seeing things I requested to see less of (labeling PRs) and missing things I want to see (releases from projects I'm actively following). And there's still no control allowing me to see or change all of my feed settings. |
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Thanks to everyone who has been sharing this feedback with us. Obviously, no one here in the community team has any control of product development, but we do try and connect the product teams with what people are saying. It would help a lot if you could create a new post rather than updating this old one, and maybe focused both on what you'd like to see and what isn't working, because then it will show up better in our reporting. |
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@ettaboyle Is there anyone the team who can replace @tuves post with a post from someone on the product team? I am leaving this here also as I noticed that likely being one of the best actions that can be taken to improve product feedback, improvement processes. |
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I also want to add, per @softworkz excellent summary, that one thing you can do to help is that when the product team does post asking for feedback, that if you can, jump in and answer their questions. One way for us to win more product involvement is to show them the value of talking to the community. That does mean those posts need to actually stay on topic and be relevant to what they're looking for - which I know can be vexing when it seems their priorities don't align with yours - but if we can create positive feedback loops (if you'll excuse the pun) it will be easier to get them to engage here directly. |
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Damn it, this post at 2023.8, but still, my home page feed not right, the first feed always 2 weeks or 1 month ago, what kind of "new feed" is this? Please, Github product team, found the bug and fix it. |
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I don't know why but the new page gives me an 'uh oh' message, reloading does nothing but pop that right back up. If my feed is empty, then that should be the message. Not sure what information I can provide to help track this down. |
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The new feed is great, I don't know what everyone is complaining about 🙃 |
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In my case it doesn't show me any feed from the repositories that I follow. |
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I am seeing github stars from users I am not following. |
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What's the point of letting people "discuss" on these threads if you are only posting to show off the terrible product changes you've made with months' efforts? Look at all these replies, there are so many complaints, bug reports, suggestions, usage scenarios. You could've improved the feed or let people choose which version to use. But no, you just chose to stay silent for over a year, during which the only development is more bugs each month. I'm so tired of this. I'd suggest you close the community altogether since you clearly don't care about what your users say. |
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Please fire the empolee that responsible for FEEDS! |
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New filter is terrible, I want to see what people are starring, but only people I follow, not a bunch of randoms. Stop turning this into a social media, thanks. |
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The new algorithmic feed is now completely useless, you've destroyed the little value that the GitHub landing page used to have for me. Please reconsider whether users actually want this feature (because I very much don't). |
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Can we please have an option to turn off this new feed? The old feed was interesting (because it was populated only be people I actually follow) but this is completely useless to me. I don't care that some rando starred a repo I starred years ago. |
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There are also few bugs within the mobile app but I found a workaround for a somewhat working feed. |
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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: