Feature Request: Browser Notification

[Malix-Labs]

Product Feedback - Feature Request

An option for browser notification in https://github.com/settings/notifications

I'm also confused as of why it's not already possible

Workarounds

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/notifier-for-github#desktop-notifications

[Hacksore]

A few related issues/repos that are relevant to this discussion.

julienv3/github-notifications#3
colinlienard/gitlight#88
desktop/desktop#17587
cschleiden/vscode-github-actions#5

I’d really love this feature to exist and hope someday it gets prioritized at GitHub.

[LiteBrite82]

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[xander-marjoram]

Our company uses both GitLab and GitHub.

Overall I believe GitHub is a superior offering but if I could add one GitLab feature to GitHub it would be this!!!

As a team we spend so much time on Slack saying "replied to your comment on my PR", quickly followed by "replied to your reply". If we got desktop notifications a lot less time would be wasted.

Also being able to quickly see if the tests have passed/failed on your PR without having to either check your emails or keep looking at your PR.

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To summarise:

[Hacksore]

It's me again 😂

I'm going to share more of my learnings and efforts. I believe realtime notifications, however achieved, are a much-desired feature!

Chapter 1 - The Tech

I've looked into a few private APIs that Github has related to pipelines and the notification bell. There are two realtime endpoints that allow you to get pipeline status and activity.

Caution

THESE ARE PRIVATE APIs AND YOU PROBABLY SHOULD NOT USE THEM

github-websocket-pipeline-api - Reverse engineering the Github websocket API - pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com
github-websocket-api - Reverse engineering the Github websocket API - alive.github.com

The goal of these projects was to prove that GitHub has the technology in place to support realtime functionality. It means that they need to find the time and budget to support a new project to give us this feature.

Chapter 2 - Github Desktop an Ideal Conduit

I've asked for a the github desktop app to be extended to support backgrounding in this feature request but it was closed as not planned because of desktop/desktop#7291 (comment) which claims the main deciding factor is Windows Design Guidelines 🫤.

As of today the Github Desktop app has the ability to push you the these events (pr-checks-failed, pr-review-submit, pr-comment) in realtime.

The folks involved with those discussions absolutely deserve a ping here @shiftkey @niik 🙏.

Chapter 3 - My Own Quest

I wanted realtime notifications to be a thing so I attempted at building something myself. This was a simple idea of adding a github app to your repo then you handle the realtime via webhooks.

🪦 RIP https://buildtray.com

In the end, it was much easier to just add a webhook to each repo and connect it to discord. However, I've put a few things in place to make the output more desirable.

Chapter 4 - Conclusion

It's clear that the community still wants this feature and there are other discussion too. community/discussions#7229 is another request for allowing all notifications to be pushed on the web app.

Optimistic we can see this feature delivered ❤️.

[LiteBrite82]

Hi @Hacksore
Ive got to refer you back to the product feedback post above for the official response to the feedback.

With that being addressed; Fantastic post! Thank you so much for your time, consideration, and effort! The context and detail you provide is invaluable to our teams and to the community.

Thank you again for your contribution!!!

[LiteBrite82]

p.s. sorry for @ ing you; I didn't see it in your profile until just now

[Hacksore]

p.s. sorry for @ ing you; I didn't see it in your profile until just now

Sorry that's a horrible inside joke, anyone is welcome to ping! I'm gonna update it now 😂.

[Malix-Labs]

Thanks for your detailed reply @Hacksore !

For your information, I'm still using the workarounds here