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GitHub provides an RSS feed for all user-facing changes made on the platform

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I wish more companies were doing this. What could be the factor that would prevent all companies to do the same, apart from laziness? Am I the only one interested by the changes that are made on the tools that I like? I'm the kind of guy who reads all release notes.

There's a matrix-style screensaver for OSX that uses something similar (global events via API) to populate the 'matrix characters' with actual code. Useless, but conceptually rather fitting.

https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver

A lightweight approach we've started at my company:

1. Create a GitHub Repo dedicated to user-facing issues (https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap)

2. Customers can subscribe to issues they are interested.

3. When resolving an issue, we reference it in the git commit, which closes the issue and notifies the issue subscribers.

We're a developer tool, so it's a familar flow for our customers.

Neat approach. I've also seen public facing trello boards used to varying success (at the very least to give users a hopefully clear picture of what features/issues are prioritized)

The Beeminder folks are doing this since 2011 http://uvi.glitch.me/

2633 User-Visible Improvements and counting! We've averaged exactly 1 per day for over 7 years. :) We also tweet them all to http://twitter.com/beemuvi

I've been using https://headwayapp.co/.

Would be nice if they changed this:

To this:

Right now there's 3 different RSS things on the page, and 2 of them go to the wrong place.

We're also doing this with our GraphQL changes in https://developer.github.com/v4/changelog/.

This is awesome!

I wish we could subscribe to Pubsubhubbub notifications without needing to register a webhook. Or rather without needing admin privileges to the repo... At least if it's public.

As far as I know, it's not like the pushed notifications include data that isn't available via painful and expensive /scraping. And with PuSH, there could be third party hubs.

I guess I've answered my own questions. Is anyone aware of folks running PuSH hubbubs for GH repos and letting other folks publicly freely subscribe to those notifications? If not, maybe a new item to add to my list...

They also provide a Twitter account by the way: https://twitter.com/GHChangelog

I was just about to make a bot for this!

Out of curiosity, what kind of bot?

Most likely a bot that tweets out new RSS items.

We use Github Enterprise at my workplace, and I actually subscribe to each organization's RSS feed and get updates on when pull requests are opened, commits are pushed, etc. Though there are some events that aren't published (like pull request review events).

Is this the source stream that gets turned into the GitHub BigQuery public dataset?

This is really nice!

Will take this idea/example into consideration for some of my projects.

always happy to see rss support! :)

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