The per-organization email settings is actually the best news out of the bunch - now I can stop checking my personal email so frequently at work.<p>I'm hoping this feature also fixes the long standing problem with github commits via the web interface (merges and minor edits) using the wrong email addresses in the permanent git history - which always seemed like a huge bug to me.<p>UPDATE: Nope, it hasn't fixed that. Organization repos still use my default personal email address in the logs even after changing the notification routing.
Loved the email:<p>"Hi friend,<p>We've made some REALLY BIG changes to the way that notifications work at GitHub.<p>We're sending you this email because we love you. Also, the amount of email you receive from GitHub notifications is going to change and we want to make sure you don't miss anything important. First, check out the new notification settings:<p><pre><code> https://github.com/settings/notifications
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I'm surprised this took them so long.<p>I hope Github's new round means they are going to be more responsive to customers. I like the company and the founders and team I know there, but it's been frustrating to have to wait for features like this for months and months.
This is awesome. I think most users have been wanting a feature like this for a long time.<p>One notable omission: There's no way to filter or search starred repositories.
They sent out what I thought was a very well done support email for this feature:<p><i>Hi friend,<p>We've made some REALLY BIG changes to the way that notifications work at GitHub.<p>We're sending you this email because we love you. Also, the amount of email you receive from GitHub notifications is going to change and we want to make sure you don't miss anything important. First, check out the new notification settings:<p><pre><code> https://github.com/settings/notifications
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You can configure which notifications are sent via email, and which email address they're sent to (per organization!).<p>Which repositories do you receive notifications from? Any repository you're watching. You can manage the list here:<p><pre><code> https://github.com/watching
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Going forward this page will be the home base for understanding which notifications you receive. You're automatically watching a bunch of repositories based on your permissions — it's probably a good idea to go through and unwatch repositories you're not interested in.<p>Check out our blog post to learn more about our new notification system, our new stars feature and improvements to notification emails:<p><pre><code> https://github.com/blog/1204-notifications
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2 buttons/actions(watch, star) and 2 different pages(dashboard, notifications)?<p>Why not make it simpler but powerful by introducing better watch button (w notifications and w/o notifications) and much better dashboard page?
I like the change in notification behaviour, but now I'm missing the list of watched (or now starred) repositories on the feed page that used to sit underneath the list of my own.<p>I literally used this list numerous times everyday to get quick access to certain repos, now I have to click the 'starred' tab to get a similar list which means an extra page load.
I think this is a bad move and an example of feature creep. Were users really asking for this? The problem was that the stream was overloaded with irrelevant projects you may have watched on a whim. It seems like they solved that with the notifications drop down. I'm not sure what the point of Starring is.
My initial impression is it's a little confusing.<p>Getting to the starred lists and to the watched lists require a considerably different navigation. (e.g. why is there a "Stars" tab beside the "Issues" tab but no "Watch" tabs? Why are my own repos starred instead of watched?)<p>I hope they'll make it easier.
From their announcement email:<p>> We're sending you this email because we love you.<p>Anyone else reminded of "Welcome to Costco, I love you" from Idiocracy's distopia? Intentional parody?
This is awesome! I made a Chrome Extension (<a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kfhdalekdpifhlndhcdnjgjoefiajefc" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kfhdalekdpifhlndhc...</a>) a few months ago that Stars has completely Sherlocked, but I'm happy for the native support of bookmarking a repo.<p>Kudos Github!<p>Edit: Also looks like it broke my plugin. Hrm...need to fix that.
I have been waiting for the stars feature for years. I want to switch all my watched repos to stars.<p>I see there is an API for watching, but do I have to screen scrape to star a repo now?
<a href="http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/watching/" rel="nofollow">http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/watching/</a>
GitHub, you should have made it so any repo that you had watched previously remained watched AND starred.<p>It looks like everything is now starred but unwatched so no one will receive any updates on the feed anymore unless they manually go through all their repos and choose to watch them.
Seems the new notification system impacted the news feed filtering of the 'switch account context'. I am now seeing lots of activity for organizations I am a member of in my personal context. I guess this is a side effect of 'watching' those repos?
I would really, really like per-file watching (or even finer granularity, though I can't imagine the use) In collaborative environments, having github tell you when something has changed without going through the commits yourself would be cool.
Excellent! I've been using watch for bookmarking interesting projects but I didn't really want to see all their activities (commits). Stars solves this problem. I think they're missing a search functionality for stars though.
They should make the star list more compact, and add a search filter to it. And move it back to where watched repos was before.<p>Also, what happens to users you decide to "follow"?
Wow, that was fast! <a href="https://twitter.com/reustle/status/232537914410668033" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/reustle/status/232537914410668033</a>
That blue notification alert should be next to the user name/toolbar.<p>Questions:<p>- All my own repos are now "Starred" by me. Should I unstarr them?<p>- Why can't I watch a repo from the Starred list?<p>- Whats up with the "Watch + Ignore" setting, isn't that exactly what Star is?
Was there a warning about this update? I heard about 10 minutes of commotion in our office due to this update. Mostly surprise at the timing which was the middle of the work day on a Monday.
Cool! Been waiting for this for a while.<p>Now, I'll continue waiting for <a href="https://gist.github.com/" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/</a> to get the updated header :-)
This change is only slightly better than the previous implementation. What we (and most I know) need is per-repo settings. Our organization has nearly 20 repos.
These are awesome updates. A few days ago I was complaining about not being able to direct organization repos to specific emails.<p>Great update Github!