GitHub stays with algorithmic feed for 'user experience and performance' reasons

September 12, 2023 update:

When we launched the latest version of your feed on September 6, 2023, we made changes to the underlying technology of the feed in order to improve overall platform performance. As a result, we removed the functionality for “push events for repositories a user is subscribed to”. We don’t take these changes lightly, but as our community continues to grow tremendously, we have to prioritize our availability, user experience and performance.

Thanks to feedback from the community, we have fixed the following bugs from the initial September 6th release:

- We were showing releases for organizations that you follow, instead of only showing them for repositories that you watch or star. This is now fixed.

- We have also addressed a problem where ‘Followed You’ cards were sometimes appearing out of chronological order.

- We do not plan to re-include “push events for repositories a user is subscribed to” for the reasons listed above, but we will continue to address feedback as it aligns with our platform goals.