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GitHub provides an RSS feed for all user-facing changes made on the platform

154 points by robinhood 8y ago

robinhood 8y ago
I wish more companies were doing this. What could be the factor that would prevent all companies to do the same, apart from laziness? Am I the only one interested by the changes that are made on the tools that I like? I'm the kind of guy who reads all release notes.
- pluc 8y ago
  There's a matrix-style screensaver for OSX that uses something similar (global events via API) to populate the 'matrix characters' with actual code. Useless, but conceptually rather fitting. https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver
- itsderek23 8y ago
  A lightweight approach we've started at my company: 1. Create a GitHub Repo dedicated to user-facing issues (https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap) 2. Customers can subscribe to issues they are interested. 3. When resolving an issue, we reference it in the git commit, which closes the issue and notifies the issue subscribers. We're a developer tool, so it's a familar flow for our customers.
  - blueline 8y ago
    Neat approach. I've also seen public facing trello boards used to varying success (at the very least to give users a hopefully clear picture of what features/issues are prioritized)
- mgiannopoulos 8y ago
  The Beeminder folks are doing this since 2011 http://uvi.glitch.me/ http://uvi.glitch.me/
  - dreeves 8y ago
    2633 User-Visible Improvements and counting! We've averaged exactly 1 per day for over 7 years. :) We also tweet them all to http://twitter.com/beemuvi http://twitter.com/beemuvi
- dguo 8y ago
  I've been using https://headwayapp.co/ https://headwayapp.co/.
robinhood 8y ago
They also provide a Twitter account by the way: https://twitter.com/GHChangelog https://twitter.com/GHChangelog
- anonfunction 8y ago
  I was just about to make a bot for this!
  - robinhood 8y ago
    Out of curiosity, what kind of bot?
    - 1181207 8y ago
      One that probably reposts...
    - heinrichhartman 8y ago
      Most likely a bot that tweets out new RSS items.
testplzignore 8y ago
Would be nice if they changed this: <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="https://blog.github.com/feed.xml" https://blog.github.com/feed.xml" title="The GitHub Blog" /> To this: <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="https://blog.github.com/changelog/all.atom" https://blog.github.com/changelog/all.atom" title="The GitHub Blog" /> Right now there's 3 different RSS things on the page, and 2 of them go to the wrong place.
derefr 8y ago
Is this the source stream that gets turned into the GitHub BigQuery public dataset?
cJ0th 8y ago
always happy to see rss support! :)
dethos 8y ago
This is really nice! Will take this idea/example into consideration for some of my projects.
bswinnerton 8y ago
We're also doing this with our GraphQL changes in https://developer.github.com/v4/changelog/ https://developer.github.com/v4/changelog/.
- kevinSuttle 8y ago
  This is awesome!
u801e 8y ago
We use Github Enterprise at my workplace, and I actually subscribe to each organization's RSS feed and get updates on when pull requests are opened, commits are pushed, etc. Though there are some events that aren't published (like pull request review events).
colemickens 8y ago
I wish we could subscribe to Pubsubhubbub notifications without needing to register a webhook. Or rather without needing admin privileges to the repo... At least if it's public. As far as I know, it's not like the pushed notifications include data that isn't available via painful and expensive /scraping. And with PuSH, there could be third party hubs. I guess I've answered my own questions. Is anyone aware of folks running PuSH hubbubs for GH repos and letting other folks publicly freely subscribe to those notifications? If not, maybe a new item to add to my list...

154 points by robinhood 8y ago

I wish more companies were doing this. What could be the factor that would prevent all companies to do the same, apart from laziness? Am I the only one interested by the changes that are made on the tools that I like? I'm the kind of guy who reads all release notes.

pluc 8y ago
There's a matrix-style screensaver for OSX that uses something similar (global events via API) to populate the 'matrix characters' with actual code. Useless, but conceptually rather fitting. https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver https://github.com/winterbe/github-matrix-screensaver
itsderek23 8y ago
A lightweight approach we've started at my company: 1. Create a GitHub Repo dedicated to user-facing issues (https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap https://github.com/scoutapp/roadmap) 2. Customers can subscribe to issues they are interested. 3. When resolving an issue, we reference it in the git commit, which closes the issue and notifies the issue subscribers. We're a developer tool, so it's a familar flow for our customers.
- blueline 8y ago
  Neat approach. I've also seen public facing trello boards used to varying success (at the very least to give users a hopefully clear picture of what features/issues are prioritized)
mgiannopoulos 8y ago
The Beeminder folks are doing this since 2011 http://uvi.glitch.me/ http://uvi.glitch.me/
- dreeves 8y ago
  2633 User-Visible Improvements and counting! We've averaged exactly 1 per day for over 7 years. :) We also tweet them all to http://twitter.com/beemuvi http://twitter.com/beemuvi
dguo 8y ago
I've been using https://headwayapp.co/ https://headwayapp.co/.

robinhood 8y ago

They also provide a Twitter account by the way: https://twitter.com/GHChangelog https://twitter.com/GHChangelog

anonfunction 8y ago
I was just about to make a bot for this!
- robinhood 8y ago
  Out of curiosity, what kind of bot?
  - 1181207 8y ago
    One that probably reposts...
  - heinrichhartman 8y ago
    Most likely a bot that tweets out new RSS items.

testplzignore 8y ago

Would be nice if they changed this: <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="https://blog.github.com/feed.xml" https://blog.github.com/feed.xml" title="The GitHub Blog" /> To this: <link type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" href="https://blog.github.com/changelog/all.atom" https://blog.github.com/changelog/all.atom" title="The GitHub Blog" /> Right now there's 3 different RSS things on the page, and 2 of them go to the wrong place.

derefr 8y ago

Is this the source stream that gets turned into the GitHub BigQuery public dataset?

cJ0th 8y ago

always happy to see rss support! :)

dethos 8y ago

This is really nice! Will take this idea/example into consideration for some of my projects.

bswinnerton 8y ago

We're also doing this with our GraphQL changes in https://developer.github.com/v4/changelog/ https://developer.github.com/v4/changelog/.

kevinSuttle 8y ago
This is awesome!

u801e 8y ago

We use Github Enterprise at my workplace, and I actually subscribe to each organization's RSS feed and get updates on when pull requests are opened, commits are pushed, etc. Though there are some events that aren't published (like pull request review events).

colemickens 8y ago

I wish we could subscribe to Pubsubhubbub notifications without needing to register a webhook. Or rather without needing admin privileges to the repo... At least if it's public. As far as I know, it's not like the pushed notifications include data that isn't available via painful and expensive /scraping. And with PuSH, there could be third party hubs. I guess I've answered my own questions. Is anyone aware of folks running PuSH hubbubs for GH repos and letting other folks publicly freely subscribe to those notifications? If not, maybe a new item to add to my list...