Home page totally useless

[porschesstein]

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In this account, I'm a corporate developer. My organization has hundreds of private GitHub repos even though I usually only work on 5-7 of them.

I would expect to see on the homepage activities in the repos I usually work in. Especially I want to see a list of open pull requests or dependabot security alerts. I don't want to see random suggestions for other Github projects. As of now, the homepage is totally useless to me.

[acgandhi]

+1. The top repositories pane on the left might be useful, if the sorting wasn't completely broken. Why are repos where the last activity (from anyone, including myself) was a year ago being shown above repositories where I pushed earlier today? Why does the recent activity section underneath it just show nothing? The following feed is neat, but does it really need to take 2/3 of the page?

[roaddemon]

Seriously. Top repos seem to be sorted by "date updated closest to one year ago" which is total garbage. Recent activity is blank despite me actively working in about a dozen repos. The homepage feed with default filters shows nothing I'm interested in. Ever. The whole right panel is gibberish. The perfect homepage is https://github.com/your_username?tab=repositories

[aeturnum]

Totally agree. My home page is currently filled with events from a repo I haven't starred or watched, by people I don't follow, that doesn't tag me. I don't know why it's there and I don't remember ever interacting with the repo.

[cheezequake]

If Microsoft owns or controls Github now since the takeover from corporate overlords. This means they are now comfortable with changing things without considering the future. They want financial gain soon so promoting advertised "open-source" projects that will end up benefiting the corporations that very well depend on benefit from freely developed software without paying employees to do it for them, instead just do what Microsoft did when they made Windows 7, steal it all and shut it down in court.

We will eventually consider not using Github when it all hits the fan and spreads all over the room.

[cheezequake]

I am not a corporate developer, but I have seen the path companies have taken when they want something that is hot and popular, they will do what it takes to copy and replicate successful systems aka the "Wall", "Feed", "River" whatever makes it easier to inject more useless crap in front of your face.

If you KNOW you NEED something, you will find it.
If you DON'T KNOW what you need, you shouldn't be distracted by it. (especially if you have WORK to do!)

Chiselling away. . . on the very ice-berg it floats on.

[MBurchard]

Unfortunately, you can't even switch off the stupid suggestions. I have used uBlock and now block the pointless element. It's a shame that you can't do anything useful in this area.

github.com##.js-for-you-feed-items

[comedinha]

Use the old feed script to see yours project activities: https://github.com/Gerrit0/old-github-feed

[roaddemon]

Yup. Every element on the homepage is either 100% useless or broken. Top repositories seems to be sorted by "date modified closest to one year ago", "recent activity" is always blank, and nothing else on the page is relevant to me. I'd like my landing page to be exactly this https://github.com/your_username?tab=repositories. Useful and relevant to me. Although I might regret posting this - github product team might see it and realize they forgot to break that page also.