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Forgive me if this is covered elsewhere, but I haven't found it yet.

One of the things that I do like about GitHub is actually the community/social aspect. For example, I follow projects I am interested in, and I can see notifications from all of them on one page--without filling up my email inbox. I also follow users who have similar interests, and I often discover new projects when I see in my feed (which I read via RSS) that they've starred a project that sounds interesting.

I think it's great that you're supporting email as a first-class way to interact with the services, but will there also be anything like GitHub's "Notifications" page?

Another feature I enjoy on GitHub is the ability to view issues and PRs across all of my repos from a single search page (e.g. search for "user:repo-owner-username is:issue"). Will sr.ht have anything like this?

Thanks for your work and for sharing it freely.

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Thanks for your feedback and questions!

>One of the things that I do like about GitHub is actually the community/social aspect. For example, I follow projects I am interested in, and I can see notifications from all of them on one page--without filling up my email inbox. I also follow users who have similar interests, and I often discover new projects when I see in my feed (which I read via RSS) that they've starred a project that sounds interesting.

For the moment I've explicitly decided against this. I want sr.ht to be a professional tool more so than a social network. This may change to varying degrees in the future.

>will there also be anything like GitHub's "Notifications" page?

There will be a feed of events, which you can use for a similar reason. At the moment, there are feeds like this, but they aren't global - they're scoped to each sub-site, like lists.sr.ht. Here's what my lists.sr.ht page looks like:

https://sr.ht/SbLu.png

>Another feature I enjoy on GitHub is the ability to view issues and PRs across all of my repos from a single search page (e.g. search for "user:repo-owner-username is:issue"). Will sr.ht have anything like this?

Maybe!

Hi, and congratulations, it looks awesome and has that old school unix feel I like, so you have a subscriber here.

Regarding the social/professional divide, a way to follow releases/security patches/API breakages on the projects I follow might make me more productive. I don't care about who stars who, but a way to link projects brings something.

Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds could be very useful.

I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose.

>Following releases of dependencies and use this information to improve CI/CD and try to explain breakage or trigger new builds could be very useful.

This should be quite possible, perhaps even automatable through dispatch.sr.ht.

> I recommend setting up a mailing list, project-announce or project-security, on lists.sr.ht for that purpose.

Indeed looks like it covers my needs. Thanks!

I find the ability to subscribe to (and aggregate) notifications on individual issues and projects incredibly helpful, professionally, because it lets me easily keep track of fixes and changes in upstream projects.

You can have email notifications without filling up your inbox. Just set up a filter rule to move all emails from an address to a folder. I do that for all spammy things like mailing lists or issue tracker comments.

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