Refined-github: Highlight notifications of issues/PRs were you were mentioned

Created on 11 Sep 2019 · 7Comments · Source: sindresorhus/refined-github

Currently the notifications view shows notifications for every issue/PR that you are subscribed to, with no visual feedback about mentions to you. There is a "Participating" tab, but that's a click away and easy to miss.

It would be really nice to have a visual indicator of the importance of the notification. In my mind they would have this order of importance:

Issues/PRs that I opened.
Issues/PRs where I was mentioned in the conversation or marked as a reviewer.
Issues/PRs that I explicitly subscribed to.
Issues/PRs that I implicitly subscribed to (i.e. because I subscribe to the organization or the project).

Not really sure if all this is doable with github's API, though.

Just to give an example, it would convey the information as I show here (but probably with a nicer design):

enhancement under discussion

Source

orium

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I wish GitHub auto-sorted notifications based on importance. "Importance" being calculated based on what I usually prioritize and other hints, using machine learning. One can dream though.

sindresorhus on 23 Sep 2019

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It's possible but I don't think it's useful to show such info for all notifications.

fregante on 11 Sep 2019

Those 4 level I mention are just an idea. What I think is useful is to have some sort of visual indication of how important the notification is.

And if that's configurable it would be even better (for instance the ability to configure a color for each type of notification reason).

orium on 11 Sep 2019

There is an online tool available that filters the notifications in different reasons:

comment
author
state change
assign
subscribed
team mention
security alert

Octobox

jerone on 23 Sep 2019

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I wish GitHub auto-sorted notifications based on importance. "Importance" being calculated based on what I usually prioritize and other hints, using machine learning. One can dream though.

sindresorhus on 23 Sep 2019

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I wish GitHub auto-sorted notifications based on importance

You mean like Facebook prioritizes your feed? I don't think developers would welcome that much.

fregante on 23 Sep 2019

The available information is incomplete and not particularly useful. Each notification could hide multiple comments and actions, but GitHub will only choose one of them. We can’t trust that it will choose the one you’re looking for so we shouldn’t show this info.

fregante on 10 Nov 2019

It's coming from GitHub: https://github.blog/2019-11-13-universe-day-one/#notifications