"For you" feed shows activity from users I don't follow

[IceSentry]

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The feed shows me activity from users I don't follow. It's possible I followed them in the past, but I don't follow them now and have no interest in seeing their activity.

This tells me that this is shown to me because I follow this user.

But when I click on this user it shows I don't actually follow them.

Clicking on the unfollow this user button in the first screenshot doesn't seem to do anything.

I picked one user for this, but this happens to quite a few users. I do follow people, but my feed is filled with people I don't follow. They all contribute to similar projects than the ones I contribute too though, so It might be related.

I did look if something like this existed already and I found this https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/13152 but while the title matches, the actual content of the issue is completely different.

Also partially related, why can't I filter out activity from people I collaborated with but don't follow? I have a bunch of activity from people I barely interacted with and no way to filter it.

[Yooo-Its-King]

Perhaps there is an option to turn off notifications from collaborators in your settings. I could be wrong, but, I remember seeing that option.

[bluenote10]

Same issue for me. The feed is very useless like that, littered with lots of entries from people I don't want to follow. Please respect our "following" settings.

[IceSentry]

Notifications settings are unrelated to the "For You" feed. I don't receive any notification from anything in that page.

[Yooo-Its-King]

I'm not sure then. I thought all notifications were shown in the "For You" page. Now I know. It looks like you've helped me more than I helped you! I'm sorry you're dealing with this problem, and thanks for the information!

[jcmdln]

My feed is also filled with organizations, projects and users I don't follow. Playing with the feed filters doesn't seem to limit what I'm seeing to the things I'm actually following like the Following tab shows.

Really I'd prefer that by default the Following tab is selected. I'm not interested in what I'm not following.

[kyletcook]

My For You tab is showing projects that I do not work on. I want the default tab when I login to github to show me the updates from the users and projects I work on and follow, and have opted into updates for already. Please.

[k32]

Welcome to the age of "the Algorithm" and attention economy, make yourself comfortable. Of course it doesn't show updates from the users you follow, because the goal is not to inform you.

[m-atthart]

Issue still exists. It's been a year and a half. I understand having a "for you" algorithm is all the rage, but at least don't say it's because i'm following the user because that's a lie and it makes it difficult to tell if i'm actually seeing it because it's part of my algorithm, or because there's a very serious bug where users can see posts that are supposed to be for someone else's feed.

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[uncenter]

FYI this just started occurring today, this looks like an old issue that is kinda now being repurposed for todays.

[m-atthart]

yes i'm the one who repurposed it for today's haha. because i was the first one to mention something about it, i didn't realize that it was a new issue.

[Samq64]

This has just started happening to me a today. I see random people in my feed starring the repositories I have already starred. Some of these users have no activity on their profiles other than starring repos.

[joaodcp]

Just started happening to me today too? How do I get rid of it? It says the event is shown in the activity feed because I follow the user but upon checking their profile I don’t.
This is very strange. Please don’t come back with the horrid beta feed that shows everything everyone does lol all I want to see is activity from projects I watch and activity from people I follow.

Just checked and all the repos I’m seeing random people starring are from organizations I follow on here.

[denisecammarota]

Same thing started happening to me today. I 'unfollowed' all those people since they give that option even though I wasn't following them, asked to not see anymore starred repos by them and yet new people start popping up!

[BrianPugh]

I'm also getting flooded with every single person that stars https://github.com/iterative/datachain. This just started today.

[uncenter]

I'm seeing stars for repositories of organizations that I follow, though clicking the three dots it looks like GitHub thinks that I follow all these random people: "You're seeing this because you follow ___".

[basicallygit]

Same exact issue here, some are repos im not even following or starred, just similar repos to ones i have starred before

[Samq64]

Thanks! I didn't realize it was tied to organizations specifically. I'm unfollowing organizations as stuff appears in the feed and will stick to just starring repositories instead.

[uncenter]

Thanks! I didn't realize it was tied to organizations specifically. I'm unfollowing organizations as stuff appears in the feed and will stick to just starring repositories instead.

It was just a bug and it's already been fixed on my end. No need to unfollow anything :)

[yamin8000]

I'm glad that I'm not the only one. I hope it's a bug and gets resolved soon.

[yamin8000]

If you follow an organization, you'll see all the activity from it like random people starring a random repository on them.
I get the idea behind it but I don't like it. I may follow the JetBrains organization but I don't want to see a random user starring some unknown repository from that org, I may be interested in a new release on their repositories but not every goddamn star.
If I want to see that many stars I look at the sky.

[basicallygit]

yep this is it, organizations you follow will show up in your activity when someone stars it, really hope this is an oversight bug and not a feature

[hexxone]

Yup, this just started happening to me as well.

Only random people in the feed which I dont follow.

I did not have the problem yesterday.

I guess this is what happens when you let Microsoft cook on the most important open source platform of the internet.

[sebadob]

+1 from me, I am getting spammed with this and can't do anything about it.

[om3ga6400]

SAME! My entire home page is flooded

[om3ga6400]

also this only started about 3 hours about

[pedorich-n]

It happened to me as well.
But, for some users, it says I'm seeing this because I've sponsored them. Of course, I didn't, but I've sponsored the repository they show up for in the past. I do not follow the Immich organization. I've starred the immich/immich-app repository.

[AndreasKaratzas]

Fixed on my account for now.

[Sh4d0wHunt3rX]

I also encountered the same problem.

Activities from people I've never followed shows up in my feed.

[AndreasKaratzas]

I am not seeing any more random activity in my feed.

[kushalkolar]

It went away for a while and now it's back again, it's pretty annoying, I do not want to see activity from accounts that I do not follow.

[joaodcp]

I've worked around it by disabling "Stars" on the filter option. It's not a fix because I like to see what repos people I follow are starring :/ Hope this gets fixed fast.

[om3ga6400]

tried that but now im getting notified for pull requests for the projects that orgs I follow made

[RaniAgus]

Problem is: I would like to see repos starred by people I follow, it's a cool way of discovering new repos. I just don't care about random people starring repos I do already know about...

[hpjansson]

Ditto. I sponsored a big project in the distant past, so now my entire timeline is just people starring that project. Apparently there's no way to filter out activity from formerly sponsored projects; the only solution seems to be to filter out all events, but that means I won't be able to see events in the projects I actively follow.

Additionally, it says "You're seeing this because you sponsor <user>", which is wrong. I never sponsored the user in question, and I'm not sponsoring the user nor the project presently.

Also, some of these events are shown twice.

[chase]

Yep, I have the exact same problem

[ARKye03]

This issue kills the "Home" page entirely. It's just tons of starred repos and contributions of random people you don't follow, just because you starred a repo(Or not even the repo, the organization that owns the repo). Isn't that the purpose of "Watch" to keep a closer eye on a repo? It's a severely disturbing and stressful feed.

[Ghamza-Jd]

Same here, weird issue since it's not intern season 🤔

[luffy-yu]

Same here!

[bukowa]

Same here

[Meorge]

I've started experiencing this as well!

[llogick]

Apparently there's a new Filter - "Include events from starred repositories"

Uncheck it

[ARKye03]

Apparently there's a new Filter - "Include events from starred repositories"

Uncheck it

That seems to be the "issue", why add a new option after so many years and make it default... I'm never going to understand that behaviour.
Or was that filter always there? I don't think so, as you said, has to be new, otherwise why there is a "WATCH BUTTON" and the "star" button will do relatively the same........

[bukowa]

Thanks, cleared it out for me.

[64J0]

It started happening for me today.

[LiteBrite82]

Hi Community!

Thank you all for your posts and comments on the recent Feed bug. The bug was related to starred repositories, which is why we see some people saying the fix is to uncheck "Include events from starred repositories".

The Feed team has pushed an update to address the issue; please leave us feedback in this separate post so we can monitor its effectiveness.