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!

[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".

[lindsaymarkward]

I'm new here, and the first thing I wanted to be able to do was follow an organization... Please let us!

[marianogabriels]

+1

[Beelzenef]

Whoops, sorry, folks. ☺️

so... can we keep faith? 😍

[ixuz]

I hope to see this feature

[saranshkarira]

Open since 2013, NOT GONNA HAPPEN

[Zenahr]

This would be awesome. My current workaround is a bookmark folder named "cool-gh-organizations" which is less than ideal.

[meadowsys]

there's not really any reason to not have this, and you can mention organisations already. plus, it's not difficult to add.
this would be especially useful if you want to get notifications for everything inside an organisation, and you can't really watch like >1000 repositories

[ghost]

I need this.........

[ugur1yildiz]

Instead it would be better to bookmark an organization

[EkremDincel]

I don't care about notifications, but I want to being able to bookmark organizations. Why such a basic feature is not implemented for years? Do you really want me to star all of 460 repositories of an organization?

[meadowsys]

4k lol

[timmywheels]

@github is inherently an open-source platform. Being able to follow organizations would be of great business value to GitHub as it would allow its users to get notified of new open source projects where developers can be among the first contributors. As a result, this would increase platform activity without a doubt.

Please consider this feature!

[japrogramer]

I have lost track of so many great organizations because I can't follow them.
organizations like https://github.com/ferrous-systems 💻 which I only recently rediscovered by accident.

[RayDeanTech]

How do I follow Microsoft Graph ? I want to monitor when they are cooking something new, and there is no Follow button or Star for the "root repository/user".

[jverce]

I'd like to at least be able to bookmark them

[JoshuaC3]

This ☝️

[hckr]

I honestly doubt something will change after so much time of inactivity, but it would be super convenient to follow an organisation (one isn't a part of).

Please, consider adding this feature in the near future!

[A973C]

I'm joining this very long list! So much time has passed and nothing change :/
What's wrong with this basic and community requested feature?

[svengreb]

I'd also really like to see this feature being added, but many authors of "I want it now!" comments here seem to forget or have no experience with larger and heavier systems like GitHub.
From my point of view it should be possible to allow users to “star“ or “bookmark“ an organization without producing too much additional load on the systems but “only“ require more space to persist data (database). Allowing users to “follow“ or “watch“ organizations on the other side will introduce way more load and traffic on the system (various event listeners, release/issue/discussion notifications, emails, …) while also require to persist data.
Please note that these are just my personal thoughts and I don't have any knowledge about the internal infrastructure.

Anyway, posting comments like “I'd also like to have this feature!“ won't help anymore but only produces noise for everyone participating or watching this issue. Please just add your 👍🏻 or ❤️ to the author post and always keep in mind that many features are not just like to be “simply implemented in some hours“, even when their actual use case doesn't look too complex from the outside.

[noorfathima11]

I'm joining this very long list! So much time has passed and nothing change :/
What's wrong with this basic and community requested feature?

this.

[oprogramador]

@junosuarez

Are you going to clone this proposal to https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions ?

[simonds]

@junosuarez, @oprogramador I added it here
community/community#4585

[deathzombee]

Why was this removed?

[TPS]

@deathzombee Quoting myself from 5 years ago 🤯:

Per 1st post after original waaaay above, this was deliberately removed by @github eons ago, w/o any serious (i.e., official) explanation that I've ever seen.

[Willus8888]

Need this feature!

[tomschweers]

At this point is it part of GitHub culture to not implement this feature? This thread will go down in history. +1 til I die (I commented years ago and still get these email notifs)

[Levi-Lesches]

@tomschweers, This isn't a Github repo. If you want to get GitHub's attention, go to https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/categories/general-feedback and create a new discussion there linking back here (or upvote one if it already exists).

[simonds]

@Levi-Lesches Did that. #50 (comment)

[tomschweers]

@simonds GOAT