They sent out what I thought was a very well done support email for this feature:
Hi friend,
We've made some REALLY BIG changes to the way that notifications work at GitHub.
We're sending you this email because we love you. Also, the amount of email you receive from GitHub notifications is going to change and we want to make sure you don't miss anything important. First, check out the new notification settings:
https://github.com/settings/notifications
You can configure which notifications are sent via email, and which email address they're sent to (per organization!).
Which repositories do you receive notifications from? Any repository you're watching. You can manage the list here:
https://github.com/watching
Going forward this page will be the home base for understanding which notifications you receive. You're automatically watching a bunch of repositories based on your permissions — it's probably a good idea to go through and unwatch repositories you're not interested in.
Check out our blog post to learn more about our new notification system, our new stars feature and improvements to notification emails:
I don't see the faux in it. It seemed pretty sincere to me, and I'm pretty cynical.
GitHub is one of the companies that take deliberate effort to make me really them, from their clever 404 page, to little details such as this. Zappos is another.
I'm wondering. Do lots of other people find this off-putting?
Hi friend,
We've made some REALLY BIG changes to the way that notifications work at GitHub.
We're sending you this email because we love you. Also, the amount of email you receive from GitHub notifications is going to change and we want to make sure you don't miss anything important. First, check out the new notification settings:
You can configure which notifications are sent via email, and which email address they're sent to (per organization!).Which repositories do you receive notifications from? Any repository you're watching. You can manage the list here:
Going forward this page will be the home base for understanding which notifications you receive. You're automatically watching a bunch of repositories based on your permissions — it's probably a good idea to go through and unwatch repositories you're not interested in.Check out our blog post to learn more about our new notification system, our new stars feature and improvements to notification emails: