Slack: [Feature Request] Subscribe only to content that is relevant to me

[gabegrand]

I've been using the GitHub Slackbot for about a month now, and I've grown frustrated with the large number of notifications about content that is not relevant to me. Even for repos with small numbers of contributors (< 10), the majority of notifications I receive are not useful to me.

I'd like to be able to subscribe only to PRs / issues / commits / etc. that were created by me, or that I'm tagged in. The existing filters by activity category are simply not useful for this purpose, since I care about all activity types that I'm involved in.

I believe this is a core drawback of the current Slack integration that is affecting virtually all users. There are a number of existing issues that are related:

https://github.com/integrations/slack/issues/390
https://github.com/integrations/slack/issues/878
https://github.com/integrations/slack/issues/943
https://github.com/integrations/slack/issues/773
https://github.com/integrations/slack/issues/944

In the meantime, I've turned off all notifications from the GitHub Slackbot, which is sad but necessary to keep me sane.

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[huehnerlady]

That is a very useful feature, I would vote for that one :)

[kotojo]

This would be very useful. My team has a monorepo with over 200 devs actively working out of it. Just tried to enable the integration in a private channel for myself and ended up with over 20 messages in 1 minute and had to disable it 😢

[theavish]

i was just trying to figure out how to do this myself, glad to see i'm not alone

[ckknight]

Since Pull Panda is no longer accepting new users, as GitHub bought them, new members of our team is missing the core functionality of Pull Reminders, which is to direct-message the developers who were assigned to a Pull Request.

Subscribing to everything is far too noisy.

[G-Bro]

Commands like the below would be great :grin:
/github subscribe [owner/repo] pulls +assigned:[username]
/github subscribe [owner/repo] comments +mentions:[username]

(above commands do not work as of writing)

And perhaps there could be
/github subscribe [owner/repo] +user:[username]
which subscribes to literally anything relating to a particular user

[zen0wu]

+100. I would love to be able to get notified when any of my PR changes (new comments, approval/request changes), or anyone requests a review from me.

[akrigline]

Was hoping to stop spamming the team's channel with all PR comments by recommending that everyone subscribe the GitHub integration to only things relevant to them. Turns out that's not even remotely possible.

[GregAtGoodRx]

Enabling to filter the subscription on @mentions would be a great addition.

[gabegrand]

For those who are following along with this thread, I've just learned about GitHub's scheduled reminders feature for Slack: https://docs.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/managing-your-scheduled-reminders

In Step 10, you can set up real-time alerts for GitHub events. Crucially, unlike the GitHub slackbot, the events in this feature are user-centered. So while this is still an unsolved issue in the GitHub slackbot, this solution is a great workaround that should work for most GitHub + Slack users looking to get reminders about PR reviews, comments, approvals, etc.