Organizations default to View as: Public rather than Member

[donatj]

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I am a member of a handful of organizations.

Recently some of my organizations started showing as View as: Public every time I visit them.

This means I have to change to View as: Member every single time I want to see my private repos. It's just kind of a pain.

I am a member, for most of them I am the owner; I shouldn't have to pick View as: Member every time.

This seems to have started a couple weeks ago. I've scoured the Organization config for a setting and can't find anything which leads me to believe this is a bug.

[softfrog]

Same here - this is a pain. I need to switch between repos often and now I have to view as member every time before I can see the repo list.

[HamzatAbdulazeez]

Check your code and might be the processing

[donatj]

@HamzatAbdulazeez What?

[mwaibel-go]

Maybe as a general rule: Don’t change the UI without any way an obvious hint to get back old behaviour.

For the others: While it’s not obvious, you can use the search bar in the public view to search private repos.

[pmenke-de]

After some browsing through the github changelogs, i've found this: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-20-organization-profile-updates-member-only-readmes-and-pinned-private-repositories/

In the referenced docs page i've found that you need to

1. create a repository .github-private in your organization
2. create a file /profile/README.md in that repo

The "View as" property will then default to "member" for members 😵‍💫

[softfrog]

Thanks for that lead - I solved it just by pinning the repos, no need for a .github-private

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On Thu, 17 Nov 2022 at 12:34, Philipp Menke ***@***.***> wrote: After some browsing through the github changelogs, i've found this: https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-20-organization-profile-updates-member-only-readmes-and-pinned-private-repositories/ In the referenced docs page <https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/collaborating-with-groups-in-organizations/customizing-your-organizations-profile> i've found that you need to 1. create a repository .github-private in your organization 2. create a file /profile/README.md in that repo The "View as" property will then default to "member" for members 😵‍💫 — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#38684 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/ABGMUFURQY55DYHGGCDRK5LWIYC3RANCNFSM6AAAAAAR3TW5S4> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.*** com>

[donatj]

Sure enough, pinning a single private repo seems to fix the issue. This is so dumb - who came up with this?

[alexandervauer]

Maybe they could add a setting for this under Settings>Access>Organizations somewhere ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[mwaibel-go]

I’m not even sure why my organization even gets to choose this. I think it should be up to me to configure my view of the organization.

[alexandervauer]

Yeah, I agree on that one

[donatj]

I mean for what it's worth I don't see why you would ever not want the members just to see it as members with the organization repos visible.

[michael-andreuzza]

2024 and the issue still going on....this makes no sense. I can't even pin repos...