[Bug] Setting to hide Packages & Environments on Repo home page not saved

[Swiss-Mac-User]

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On the repository home page under Settings, there are checkboxes to hide „Releases“, „Packages“, and „Environments“.

However, I discovered that unchecking the later 2 of these is not saved and hence not applied. Reopening the Settings shows both as checked again.

• System: macOS 14 Sonoma
• Browser: Safari on macOS
• Browsing: non-private mode

[philipp-meier]

I think a similar bug was also reported here, but the cause of the problem seems to be different: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/62048

I do have the same problem with all my repositories lately. On repositories with the "Release area", I can't disable it and on others I can't enable it.
It seems like the request to settings/update_meta does only contain the fields "Description", "Website" and "Topics", but is missing the fields below "Include in the home page" in the payload.

Edit (02.08.2023): I just created a bug report for this at https://support.github.com/contact/bug-report.

[WhiteHoodHacker]

I can also confirm that the options under "Include in the home page" do not work. The request to /repo_owner/repo_name/settings/update_meta only includes the following form data fields:

_method: PUT
authenticity_token: ...
repo_description: ...
repo_homepage: ...
repo_topics[]: ...

The request does not include fields for any of the options below:

As a result, checking/unchecking any of those boxes doesn't do anything. I thought it might have been a bug with the new navigation feature preview, but it is broken on the old navigation as well.

[oliveratgithub]

Great analysis! Thanks a lot for adding this 👍

[nicfv]

Just made a post here about this: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/62115
Was accidentally a duplicate of this item. However, I did add a video screengrab in that issue in case that helps track down the bug.

[forrestwilkins]

This is also happening for my repo: https://github.com/praxis-app/praxis-api. It's not happening for any of my other repos though.

[haotian-liu]

Thanks for the analysis. This is happening to my repo as well -- I cannot turn on the release in my repo: https://github.com/haotian-liu/LLaVA

Hope this can be fixed soon :)

[hetabjorklund]

This is also happening to a new repo I created today (https://github.com/hetabjorklund/star-wars-app), I can't hide Releases, Packaged or Environments.

[muhd-umer]

The same is happening for my repo (https://github.com/muhd-umer/simcomm), however, editing the description, website, and tags, works as intended.

[cba85]

I also made a duplicate post about this bug: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/62378

Releases, Packages and Environments blocs are always included in the home page, even if I uncheck the options to remove them.

It is happening on all of my repos in my case.

[FlorianLeChat]

After getting a reply from support, the bug seems to have been fixed on my side.

[userari]

The issue still persist today 08/28/2023, I can hide anything that I want, but the problem is I can't see it on my own repository ( logged and logged out ) which works fines, but someone else can see them as long as they are logged in 🤡