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There's also "Git Notifier" which sends you emails about forks, stars, and (un)follows on GitHub:

Author here, thank you for posting! I'll be around to answer any question :)

not totally on topic, but i really wish chrome would leverage os level notifications instead of rolling their own thing. they've been pretty wonky for me on el capitan lately and i really don't see much added value in the first place.

Yeah, I agree. I spend alot of time in the browser when I'm taking breaks but there are many situations where I'd want OS-level notifications.

I think they really need a low/high priority with the high being OS.

Agreed. If those Mozilla guys figured it out, surely the Chrome team can too!

They're also probably two or so times the size of os level notifications (in OSX at least). So suddenly there's a huge box in the corner of my screen when I'm using a 13-inch laptop. It's quite off-putting.

Firefox 44 added Web Push support [0]. They give you OS notifications even after closing the web site they're coming from. According to CanIUse Chrome has partial support for it[1].

0: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2016/01/web-push-arrives-in-firefo... 1: http://caniuse.com/#feat=push-api

Most annoying for me is that I seem to respond to 'do you want notifications' before I've processed whether it's a Chrome or OS prompt. (It's not that obvious anyway.)

Result tends to be duplicate notifications...

There's a chrome://flags entry for that. I've tried them for a week on MacOS and they are not yet ready for prime time.

github notifications are hard, starring is too low frequency while watching is too much spam is there something like a monthly/weekly digest for repos?

That would be great! I often find myself unwatching repos that are interesting, but fill my inbox with hundreds of PRs and comments.

There's https://ifttt.com/connect/github/email_digest

>full personal info

>access to private repos

>read and write access to github

that's a little too much but thanks for the suggestion

Yeah, I'm curious why it needs write access or personal info beyond your email.

I don't know if things have improved, but the last time I worked with GitHub's API, they only had one scope for working with repositories and it pretty much gives you the ability to do everything.

Presumably it gives you notifications from private repos.

There are RSS feeds for releases too, quite handy as I use them to get release notifications / notes on things like uBlock to find out what's new.

Eg. https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/tags.atom

Also good for smaller things like npm components that might not have a blog you can subscribe to for updates

These sorts of projects always want me to fill in a list of repos to "watch". We've got an organization full of repos, with new ones coming on and old ones being archived all the time.

I want to just say "watch this organization", and anything that gets assigned to me in that org, I get notified for. I don't want to have to manage a notifier every time new repos get added or archived.

Great suggestion! That's next on the feature list!

ive been using https://sibbell.com/about/. it emails you when any of your starred repos gets a new release. im happy with it.

Doesn't work for me. Keep getting spammed about not being signed in.

does this just NOT work for private repos?

Should work, please file an issue in GitHub, if possible could you navigate to the extensions page, enable developer mode and show the background console and any errors reported?

https://github.com/imjacobclark/github-notifier/issues/2#iss... outlines what may be causing your issue.

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