Private RSS feed now includes releases from starred, *unwatched* projects

[csnover]

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Sometime in the past day or so, some change was deployed that has caused my private RSS feed to be flooded with release activity of every project I have ever starred. This isn’t helpful. If I want to get project releases, that is what the release subscription option (under the watch button) is for. I feel like this same change was pushed and reverted some time years ago, and now it’s back again, but I can’t find any earlier discussion of it. Starred projects are not subscribed projects. Please respect the user’s watch/subscription settings for the RSS feed. Thanks!

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[lexisother]

I've noticed there have been generally unexpected random changes in the RSS feed lately. There's some very annoying differences in message formatting:

• <user> starred <owner>/<repo> is now <user> starred <repo>
• <user> contributed to <owner>/<repo> is now <user> contributed to <repo>
• <user> forked <user>/<newRepo> from <originalOwner>/<originalRepo> is now <user> forked a repository
• <user> released <tag> at <owner>/<repo> is now <user> published a release

[zer0def]

To piggy back on this, after the recent change, the feed includes contributed to (and very likely other types of) messages, when the user previously had disabled those.

[thenoseman]

Addition: I also have a lot of <title type="html">github-actions published a release</title> in the feed which previously contained the project name being changed. Now most entries look like this and are hard to differentiate.

[lexisother]

@shinybrightstar Just informing you since you seem to be the main communicator for this discussion; it seems the naming scheme has been reverted to how it used to be. 👍🏻

[lexisother]

@zer0def My comment wasn't about what does/doesn't get shown, only about the naming scheme. The naming scheme has been fixed. Please do not hijack a subthread with irrelevant comments.

[mosra]

In addition to the above, which seems to be fixed now (thanks!), there's still this annoying difference left:

• <user> made <owner>/<repo> public is now <user> made this repository public

[shinybrightstar]

Hi @csnover, can you please confirm if you still have this issue or if this has been resolved?

[csnover]

I can confirm this issue persists and is not resolved.

[shinybrightstar]

Hi @csnover,

Our engineering team has just deployed a fix for this issue. The private feeds should now properly exclude releases from starred, unwatched projects.

Could you please check your private feed again and let us know if it's working correctly now?

Thank you for your patience.

[csnover]

Not fixed.

[shinybrightstar]

Thanks for letting me know. The team is aware and is working on a Fix.

[codyphobe]

I'm having this issue as well, specifically <user> contributed to <repo> events flooding in. I noticed my feed reader telling me I have significantly more unread items than I usually do in the afternoon, so I opened up GitHub, went to my activity feed, disabled all events I didn't want to see, grabbed the .atom link with the updated token just in case the filters were token specific, and loaded that into my reader.

All was well at first, but then after a couple of hours I noticed it started showing the unwanted events again. I made sure it wasn't an issue with my reader by copying the exact tokenized .atom link it's pulling from and opened it in my browser, then I searched for contributed and they were all there.

Edit: I figured it might be helpful to know exactly which events I chose to receive/ignore, so I'm adding them below:

• Announcements
• Releases
• Sponsors
• Stars
• Repositories
• Repository activity
• Follows
• Recommendations
• Include events from starred repositories

[zer0def]

While some other behaviors may have been fixed, I'm still getting <user> has contributed to <namespace>/<repo> feed entries every time a user opens a PR, while never choosing to see repository activity (?), so this issue is NOT yet fixed.

[arokettu]

1. RSS contains releases from starred repos
2. go to the index page, filter menu, uncheck "Include events from starred repositories"
3. RSS ok, no release spam, checked from the reader to avoid influence of cookies and such
4. (some time passes)
5. RSS contains releases from starred repos, goto 1

So at least for me the problem is that the setting is forgotten after some time.
Also IMHO RSS needs a separate configuration.

[sercxanto]

The setting is forgotten only during RSS generation, going to the filter menu shows that "Include events from starred repositories" is unchecked, so I push "save" there without doing anything and everything gets fixed

Hi @arokettu,

I am experience the same RSS spam since beginning of August.

Curious now where I could find the "index page" and those settings such as "Include events from starred repositories". Could you please give me a hint? :)

For the feed I am using the url https://github.com/sercxanto.private.atom?token=... since ages and cannot remember that there was a settings page for it.

[arokettu]

Index page is https://github.com then use this menu.

[sercxanto]

Ah, the filter menu. Thanks, now I found it!

[arokettu]

Looks like it no longer forgets the setting. Probably it was fixed finally

[mosra]

Can confirm it's fixed for me now as well, it stopped producing the unwanted events from starred repositories in the past few days.