Provide a way to disable the "Popular Repositories" dashboard feature

[rnhurt]

Introduction

It seems that recently the GitHub default dashboard changed to include a "popular repositories" section if/when you don't have any pinned repositories. This would be fine, except in our organization the "popular repositories" section is completely made up of old, public repos that we never look at. This means a large portion of our main repositories page is taken up by content that we have to scroll past to see the things we are interested in.

In short ...

💢 I DON'T CARE ABOUT "POPULAR REPOSITORIES" IN MY ORGANIZATION ACCOUNT!!! 💢

Reproduction Steps

1. Go to your organizations GitHub landing page
2. Remove any "pinned" repositories
3. Notice that any/all public repositories now consume the top half of the page

Resolution

Just make the "popular repositories" section optional. That's all I want.

Finally

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[dataspun]

looking forward to this disable feature

[marcrespass]

For the love of God, Github is not social media. I don't want to see "trending" repositories. What could that possibly mean? I know what I am interested in and I know how to find that. I don't want Github's "artificial intelligence" to suggest repositories. Honestly. Can anything just be good instead of monetized?

[rnhurt]

Welcome to the world of enshitification. 😢

[danyalaytekin]

It seems that nearly all the 'trending repositories' this month are owned by Microsoft 👀 unless this is only affecting me for some reason. This is the second faint alarm bell I can hear coming from GitHub's direction now, the first being the current inability to add more than one 'auto add' workflow to a project.

[HVR88]

uBlock Origin or Tampermonkey. Target the trending div and you'll take out the recommended at the same time.

[Kiirani]

I desperately want this to go away.

I mostly use private repositories, although I'm hoping to be more active in the future.

As of today, my "popular" public repositories are:

• A repo I forked over 10 years ago to fix a bug that is completely irrelevant now.
• A repo I just made temporarily with a reproduction case for a bug report.

In both cases, I think there's utility in leaving them visible in case future people are trawling through history... but I absolutely do not want them front and centre on my profile. I guess I'm going to end up deleting them?

[ghost]

I add my vote to this.

[actrawave]

+1. So annoying.

[mounirbelhniyene]

Really needs that unnecessary, ugly sidebar to go away.

[eurlexa]

+1. So annoying.

[acgtun]

+1

[nihaltowfiq]

need this feature!!

[Enukio]

+1

[xscapintime]

+1

[yener35]

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[jj-jamen]

+1 no movement yet?

[xl400v]

In the old interface GH release publishing could be removed in repo.

Tip

Try opening the repo and unchecking the Star so that your personalized feed does not show next release.

[paydii]

Plus one!

[cyneprepou4uk]

+1, I hate this feature

[jaredhabeck]

Three years eh? Maybe that's the release cycle for a boolean/checkbox feature in settings at this point?

Here's one trick I found: create a gist, it can be blank, or have placeholder text - pin only that gist/repository.

[yassirelkhaili]

Still waiting on this feature why isn't this a think yet?

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[HehehBoiii78]

Better late than never I guess 🤷

[Nucs]

The world would be prettier with this feature.

[salpelter]

Any update on this?

[ahwm]

Nah. It's not related to Copilot so it's mostly ignored.