Disable "For you"

[holiveros-samsung]

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Not interested in a quasi-social feed at all, even less when using my work account; it's confusing and possibly dangerous in the long run.

There should an option to disable the tab.

[janbrasna]

GitTok.

[maddisondesigns]

+1 for the ability to turn off the "For you" tab. If I want to see updates from someone, then I'll follow them.
I'm not interested in seeing a bunch of notifications from people that Github thinks I'd be interested in, that I don't actually follow.
(or at the very least, give us the ability to default the feed to the Following tab so we don't have to constantly switch to it)

[Ketcap]

It's not a social media, we don't need for you, there's a reason we follow people/companies to see their updates, and if you are gonna have for you then delete explore. Either make following default or not have this please.

[Ketcap]

If I'm following someone or some company those are the things i'm looking for they are not irrelevant. You are missing the idea. We have explore which is already from the topics we like around. For you is non-sense itself. Check twitter and tell me people like For you or they switch "Following"?

One thing that has been missed on these things are when people follow company and user, the things we want to see is from them on chronological order.

[cubiclesoft]

What a disaster. I liked the previous feed because it showed who has starred my public repos. I actually enjoyed looking at who has starred and forked various repos and seeing the global reach that my software has. The new feed? I get none of that. I can't even find any of my own repos in the feed. Am I more important? No. I'm just curious about who finds my software next and where in the world they live and if they've got any interesting projects. Most people don't have anything interesting but sometimes some hardcore engineer with some crazy stuff will star or fork something. I've learned a whole bunch of city names and places in the world and generally just say, "Hey, that's pretty cool that someone in Namibia starred that repo. An anonymous person forked that repo. I can respect that they want their privacy. Oh look, someone in Brazil starred two repos! Cool! ..." And then I just move on from there. I don't need my "feed" to be any more complex or more "social" than that.

The only positive about the new feed is the "Trending" section. I think that is fine, IMO, because it is easy to lose touch with what's going on in the world when I bury my head in code for a while. It might also turn up some interesting new repos that the community thinks is cool. However, everything else about the new feed I'm very much "100% Not Interested" and I just want the old feed back.

[cubiclesoft]

Well I'm a doofus. The "Following" tab has the old feed I'm looking for. Ignore above rant for the most part. However, I think "Trending" should be its own filter item though.

[zearp]

Funny how I somehow got opted into this beta crap but can’t opt out anymore. Typical Microsoft.

[Aworldc]

good old m$

[rbozan]

You can use uBlock Origin to just remove the element. or maybe the "Filter" works on the top right.

[iacore]

The rule is ###feed-next

[aykaramba]

To all the management and staff of github: go ****** your selves. I absolutely despise all people like you that ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS want to take a perfectly good service and convert it into an msn / reddit / intersectional cult social media site.

Stop. Just stop.

Give me a way to turn off this nonsense so I never have to see this nonsense.

[Simplenuity]

Walk. Just walk.

I know it's not always possible, at least not completely. But where it's under my control, I'm using another, not M$ controlled service/site. So, none of my repos will get uploaded here and activity is kept to the minimum.

some more info: https://giveupgithub.org/

[robertncoomber]

Deselecting all from the filter disables all "for you" content. This is a temp fix for most of my issue with the home page.

[theAkito]

Speaking of that....

https://github.com/wangrongding/github-old-feed

https://github.com/SamJakob/github-homepage

[RedSpid3r]

I have absolutely ZERO interest in having algorithmic content shoved in my face, none of which is even relevant or of interest to me.

Please allow me to completely disable this feature.

[savchenko]

I have absolutely ZERO interest in having algorithmic content shoved in my face

+1

[wackbyte]

I would really like for there to be an option to disable this or at least to instead default to the "Following" tab. It is very annoying that the "For you" tab is chosen for me every now and then as I have no interest in using it.

[Vazno]

It's not that bad

[DutchGhost]

I am all in for this option. Github is NOT social media. Dont turn it into social media, I am not on social media for a reason. All I want to see is who starred my repo's, and work from people that I follow. The 'for you' algorithm does not give me suggestions I'm interested in, and it clutters the home page.

[komali2]

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

I call this enshittification

Cory Doctorow: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

I mean, they literally call the tab "For You," despite the at this point infamous enshittification of Twitter that all started with the enshittifying of their "For You" tab.

The "For You" tab here isn't so bad. Oh well. You can easily ignore it. But it is a clear and distinct sign.

We've all sat and watched many "too big to fail" platforms get enshittified to failure, or near-failure, at this point. Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Reddit. The semi-successful platforms that just couldn't be enshittified were simply abolished after being purchased by big companies or deemed unprofitable-via-enshittification: Vine, Yik Yak, 50 different actually useful google services.

Github isn't going anywhere for some time I'm sure, because Microsoft isn't going anywhere ever, but it's for me the first blaring warning sign of the enshittification of Github.

Luckily there's decent FOSS alternatives, like Gitlab, that you can deploy your own instance of so as to permanently avoid enshittification. See also https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#software-development---project-management

[jorisw]

I find "For You" to be an insult on Twitter/X as well as Instragram as well as GitHub.

I'll decide what's for me. The whole point of the follow system is to indicate yourself what you want to follow. Shoving unwanted content in our faces will not garner our respect or appreciation.

If the For You tab was the secondary, non-default tab, I wouldn't have this issue at all. It's the audacious presumption that we're interested, more even than in what we chose to follow, that I find dumb as well as insulting.

[aykaramba]

Bingo. I am not a child. I don't need to baby sat. I don't need my content curated. I am not in kinder garden needing to be spoonfed.

Until you summarized it so well, I did not realize why this bothers me as much as it does. Others have already moved to other providers such as Gitlab and such. I am going to start investing time to do this my self.

This "enshitification" trend is absolutely absurd.

As a side note, the proper way to do this is to create the features and throw them into a settings panel with a check box so users that want them can turn the features / on off. Which is the other truly insulting bit of this. They KNOW that this is the right way to do this and they STILL went ahead and forced it on everyone.

[isaacdejesus]

Exactly, I use github mainly to look up my own repos in order to reference something. It's my github, why can't my repos be displayed front and center when I am logged in and go to github.com?

[darkwater4213]

I'm sure you could write a client-side script for that. Maybe even host it on your .github.io page. And while you're at it, might as well send your application in to Microsoft. /s

[alanpaone]

Hate, Hate, Hate the idea of a For You page, get it the hell out of here, delete the code and fire the exec who pushed for it to be put in our faces.

[Nit-nit]

Your pfp looks like a sheep

[RossBrunton]

This reads very much only like a shallow ploy to boost engagement, and have people spend longer on the app in order to serve more adverts or whatever.

If it isn't:
If you genuinely want a way for people to explore content, consider copying what Mastodon does. Have repos (or issues) tag themselves something like #nodejs, #clang etc. Then users can follow those tags, and the "for you feed" consists of ONLY objects with that tag. This will allow people to customize their own feed and get what they actually want, which should alleviate some of the feelings of being a slave to the algorithm.

Also make it opt in and not the default.

If it is:
Please stop. I like to think Github users are very aware of how these manipulative practices work (being usually more online and technically inclined), and will rightly call you out on it and/or move to other platforms. This kind of thing can be inherently dangerous as it can suck people in, and cause people to doomscroll. Microsoft or developers working on this feature, is that something you are comfortable being complicit in?

Of course, the risk of doomscrolling is less than something like Twitter or Instagram, since Github generally doesn't have that much controversial things on it (except for Google's DRM changes...). If that is the case, why are you even bothering with this feed then, if you can't use it to pull people in to get ensnared by drama?

[darkwater4213]

Honestly, I don't think drama has anything to do with it. It seems more like an algorithm-driven customer quantity-over-quality sort of play. I mean that they're using the For You page to increase user engagement and time, thus increasing GitHub's "reputation" in various search engines (Google, for instance... Bing is doubly irrelevant in this). In theory, this will attract more customers, some paying, some not. But paying is paying, and Microsoft gets their money either way.

It is also entirely possible that this is simply seriously misguided goodwill and GitHub's staff are simply out of touch with their userbase's collective mindset. Working off this, it is reasonable to also assume that it was intended as a Good Thing™... But I would expect a slightly different rollout than silently switching defaults if that were the case. At the very least, it would be some sort of popup notification on release? But there wasn't, at least as far as I'm aware. Do with that what you will.

[mipmip]

agree!

[Nit-nit]

This is the most active thread out of all the ones which I ever joined on GitHub