Add ability to follow organizations like a user

[junosuarez]

I want to be able to see when a new repository is created in an organization that I follow, or when members are (publically) added to an organization, similar to the timeline view of new repos created by users I am following.

[captn3m0]

Earlier, you could have done this using either the command bar or the API. GitHub removed the follow feature from the command bar, though.

Update: The API no longer works either.

[SuzanneSoy]

This is still an issue as of November 2013.

The javascript hack $.post("https://github.com/users/follow?target=RepositoryName"); you can find on the web doesn't work anymore.

[phlegmaticprogrammer]

Yes, it is really bad that you cannot follow an organization anymore. I just turned a user into an organization, and found out only too late that no followers are possible anymore!

I can understand why Github is doing that, to avoid sending out lots of notifications to all users who follow an organization when only a single repo in the organization changes. BUT. Just select more carefully which notifications will be send for organizations.

[captn3m0]

When the feature used to be available earlier, there was no issue of being overwhelmed by notifications because it only sent you "high-level" org notifications, such as X "open sourced" a repo, or X "created a new repo" and a few others. Wish they'd bring it back.

[jnny]

concur'd - i would really appreciate getting updates from the orgs i'm interested in following!

[doublerebel]

👍

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[axelav]

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[prenagha]

+1

[ziyuang]

Github users themselves are responsible for the flooding notifications if there were any, so please don't make decisions for them. In my case, I am following the research from a group, which won't spam messages at all. Finally, +1 for the idea of "high-level notifications".

[travi]

+1

[queckezz]

+1

[lifuzu]

+1

[zachguo]

👍

[punkeel]

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