option to disable or hide contribution activity on the profile page

[jonathanong]

i don't like it. i don't want people to be able to crawl that info, either, even through an API. it gets spammy when you make a lot of typo commits, PR merges, or open a lot of issues.

i don't mind the activity tab, but being able to see what people have done over the past year on any given date is creepy.

what i would really like is the two columns of popular repositories and repositories contributed to to be really long. way more interesting IMO. the repositories tab requires too much scrolling.

[glamrock]

Seconded! Particularly given that it's typically incorrect. All of the "contributions" for my project Satori, when added together, are nearly 200, when there are only 75 commits in reality.

[patcon]

👎 from me :)

[spaghetticodr]

Yes please. This is highly creepy.

- edit -
OMG now look at what you've done, now anyone can go to my profile and find out what I find creepy. This is ANNOYING and makes me not want to contribute.

[kdstarter]

I think all my activities (commits, PR) are all privacy, it's creepy that anyone can watch you're doing recently, we users should be able to choose hidden or limit display them.

Yeah, this is super creepy. It essentially means that before I contribute to a project, even to submit an issue, I have to think about the implication if an employer were to see that association. This is not at all OK.

It's now September, and github doesn't allow users to hide their activity.

Bitbucket can hide profile. Why not Github?

This is ANNOYING and makes me not want to contribute.

all my activities (commits, PR) are all privacy

Yeah, I know how you feel. But I'll contribute to other projects anyway.

[kdstarter]

Because it's Github, that's all.
Just a joke (^_^)...

[spaghetticodr]

Thanks I'll try bitbucket. Like many developers, I'm not a social/extraverted person. I just need a place to host my code, maybe interact with a few like minded people, but definately not share my nerdy status updates with the whole world.

I otherwise like Github, it's designed professionally - none of that metro/mobile-first BS. But you have no respect for privacy...

[James-E-A]

Fair point: this does not make any information public that wasn't public before, yes?

This list just aggregates into one place information that was already publicly accessible? Anything submitted to private repositories or otherwise non-public information isn't leaked by this, correct?

[rayshan]

👍

[sreejaThummala]

Is this issue still open?

Yes, it is opened. I think that GitHub should open an account on uservoice (their customer) so New Feature Requests would be ranked and priorized.

+1

[vellow]

Hope to get an answer