Gist comments and mentions don't trigger notifications

[max-mapper]

this used to work.

to reproduce:

• make a gist
• have someone leave a command or @ mention you
• you won't receive any emails

[Bouke]

:shipit: !

[deoren]

+1

[raindev]

Looking forward to see it implemented🐰

[LaurensRietveld]

+1

[jennybc]

+1

[prateek05]

+1

[naholyr]

:+1:

[nealtodd]

+1

[tijptjik]

:+1:

[VincentDondain]

+1

[dongshengbc]

:+1:

[amdrew]

:+1:

[an0]

I want this, too. But will GitHub team see this?

[bethesque]

I don't believe so. I recommend contacting them directly with a polite request. My email did actually get responded to by a human, even if they only said "your request has been noted".

In the meantime, I wrote this fairly ugly but workable stopgap solution that uses a ruby script and a launchd configuration: https://github.com/bethesque/gist-notifications

[kramerc]

@bethesque I wrote something similar about a year ago and mentioned it here. However, mine is more geared towards adding an entry to the crontab.

[bethesque]

:+1:

[mwinche]

+1

[an0]

@bethesque but GitHub does encourage us to come here: https://github.com/contact.

[bethesque]

Yes, that's where I sent my request from.

[Xesued]

+1

[yckart]

:+1:

[Nate-Wilkins]

:+1:

[jessedavidson]

+1

[cansadadeserfeliz]

:+1:

[phibo23]

+1

[afred]

:+1:

[sheharyarn]

:+1: :+1: :+1:

[gogromat]

+1

[noamross]

+1

[weissjeffm]

Pretty please :+1:

[rmzelle]

:star: +1 :star:

[joech4n]

:+1:

[cyrusdavid]

:sparkles: :+1: :shipit: :sparkles:

[stefansundin]

Hello all. I made a quick app that gives you an RSS feed of your gist comments. Use it freely here: https://gh-rss.herokuapp.com/

If you like it, don't be afraid to send me some money for a coffee. :)

[tannerhodges]

@stefansundin Wow, thanks! This is perfect. Used this Zapier to get email notifications too: https://zapier.com/zapbook/rss/email/544/get-email-alert-from-rss-feed/

[joech4n]

@stefansundin That's great, thank you! Here's an IFTTT Recipe for email alerts, too.

[rosenfeld]

For some reason it doesn't seem to generate a valid Atom format for my own feeds. Any ideas, @stefansundin?

[stefansundin]

@rosenfeld Oops, looks like I'm not escaping ampersands, that's why the feed is not validating. I'll try to fix it later today.

As some might have noticed, it is not compiling the markdown to HTML or inserting smileys. The most important job it has is to notify you, which works well now. If people continue to be interested and I get some donations, I will work on fixing smaller things like this.

[stefansundin]

@rosenfeld It should work now. All HTML should now be escaped.

[rosenfeld]

Yes, thank you very much, @stefansundin. This already solves an important part of the problem with the lack of gist notifications by Github and I will be using that feed until Github implements it properly. I will also spread the word whenever I comment in someone's else gist :) It would be awesome if I could also subscribe to some particular gist not owned by me that I could be interested on the conversation. Maybe someone might be interested in creating some Chrome extension that would display some "subscribe" icon to the github gists :) Anyway, congrats for the initiative :)

[rey]

Yeah this is really awesome -- thanks. I'll absolutely buy you a beer.

Sent from my silly iPhone

On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:32, Rodrigo Rosenfeld Rosas notifications@github.com wrote:

Yes, thank you very much, @stefansundin. This already solves an important part of the problem with the lack of gist notifications by Github and I will be using that feed until Github implements it properly. I will also spread the word whenever I comment in someone's else gist :) It would be awesome if I could also subscribe to some particular gist not owned by me that I could be interested on the conversation. Maybe someone might be interested in creating some Chrome extension that would display some "subscribe" icon to the github gists :) Anyway, congrats for the initiative :)

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[stefansundin]

@rosenfeld All of your ideas can be implemented. In the future I intend to add notifications when people fork your stuff and neglect to PR the changes back to you. As for a Chrome extension, these days I try to make those things as good old Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey userscripts, mostly because Google is no longer allowing local installations of extensions.

Right now I'm outputting all of the comments, if performance suffers then I might decide to limit them to the most recent 30 or so, or maybe drop them after a month has passed. But I don't mind stress testing the website for now.

[akulakhan]

need a way to get comments on secret gists too, would be nice.. for now, I just tell people to not expect me to read their comments.

[bethesque]

Thats the reason I'm still using my hacky gist-notifications script instead of the more elegant RSS solution from stefansundin. Hurry up Github!

[stefansundin]

Okay, I am hereby announcing a donation goal. If people collectively pledge $100, I will implement secret gist comments. Read all the details here: https://github.com/stefansundin/github-activity/issues/1

[ihrwein]

:+1: for this feature

[brock]

Just submitted a feature request to Github again, after StackOverflow told me a link that I'd shared had gotten over 25 views. Tracked it down to this gist that had a few comments.

My request:

| I reeeeeally reeeeeeeeeally would like to be notified when somebody comments on one of my gists. Will resort to scraping them in the meantime if I must. Felt bad when I had multiple comments on an old gist and hadn't responded to them.

[calid]

This just bit me, I'm surprised this is clearly such a low priority bug...

[jimmygle]

:+1:

[st4lk]

:+1: