View list of issues I'm subscribed to, on the website

[jmm]

On the website I want to be able to view a list of issues that I'm subscribed to, but don't [necessarily] have any other involvement with. My current use case is that I'd like to be able to "favorite" issues for future reference (e.g. in case I want to comment later). It would be a bonus if I could filter to see results where I'm only subscribed and have no other involvement. Perhaps a dedicated favoriting feature would even make sense, but GitHub already has a subscription feature and I think I should be able to see what issues I'm subscribed to.

I contacted GitHub support about this and the first response was to use the involves qualifier. But that

is just a logical OR between the author, assignee, mentions and commenter qualifiers for the same user

and does not return issues that I'm only subscribed to. I explained that in my reply and their next reply acknowledged that it's not currently possible to view the list of subscribed issues via the website.

[drazisil]

Ah yes. The staff member who responded agreed and said they would pass along my support of the request. 

— Sent from Mailbox

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 11:14 AM, cisso notifications@github.com wrote:

@drazisil: Did you get a response?

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/283#issuecomment-162008393

[mikesigs]

I emailed them a second time phrasing it as a feature request: "New search filter "notifications:enabled|disabled|on|off|true|false"". I also offered to help write it (in case that part of GitHub were open sourced and I wasn't aware). Here is their response:

Hi Mike,

Thanks for taking the time to write in with your feedback on this feature request! We don't comment publicly on our roadmap but we are aware of this and I'll add your thoughts to our internal list for consideration by the team.

There are various projects tied into GitHub that are open to the open-source community as a whole, but I'm not sure this particular feature could work along those same lines. It's an interesting idea and I've made a note of that for folks to review as well.

So, I guess we keep waiting. And in the meantime we all continue enjoying the daily +1 notification emails from this thread.

[mootari]

And in the meantime we all continue enjoying the daily +1 notification emails from this thread.

:joy:

From a technical point of view: I'm guessing that they tie subscribers to issues. Doing the reverse would probably require completely new (and large) indices.

[adarshaj]

I subscribed. But then I realized there's no way I can come back to this issue! So here's my +1 and sorry for generating emails/notifications.

[bigkraig]

:+1:

[xiuqin]

+1

[mrannanj]

:+1:

[ckujau]

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

[khernyo]

:+1:

[stumyp]

being notified for a bunch of issues you've transferred from another repo, and not able to batch-unsubscribe from all them or at least see them .... :+1:

[kremizask]

:+1:

[user414]

+2

@Mte90 Thank you so much for that response it works

is:open is:issue involves:YourUserName

[the-jiveman]

:+1:

[Webinator2129]

:+1:

[manuelmarcos]

:+1:

[Thaina]

Yes Please

[DenisBiondic]

:+1:

[201power]

:+1:

[nharada1]

:+1:

[bpinney]

:+1:

[sym3tri]

+1

[Sohra]

+1 :thumbsup:

[ashishtibrewal]

+1 👍🏻

[cambrant]

:thumbsup:

[xied75]

Probably this explains http://uk.businessinsider.com/github-the-full-inside-story-2016-2?r=US&IR=T

[johnallers]

:+1:

[pibo]

:+1:

[ttmarek]

:+1:

[zizkebab]

:+1:

[andersonba]

:+1:

[nkgm]

:+1:

[S8nsick66]

+1

[luebken]

+1

[CreamyCookie]

+1

[JaseFace]

:+1:

[tmds]

+1

[skylerwshaw]

:+1:

[Deuteu]

:+1:

[sfleiter]

+1

[adambiggs]

:+1:

[mikesplain]

:+1:

[Mte90]

I hope that now we can use this: https://github.com/blog/2119-pull-request-and-issue-reactions to avoid the many notifications of our interest of that feature :-)

[epu]

Yeah, if I jump to the top search box, clear the 'This Repository' filter, and type in 'involves:epu', I get just the list of issues I have contributed in, or am subscribed to. Does that count for closing this out?

[jmm]

@Mte90 This is a special case -- I highly encourage people to comment on this issue :smiley: (even if it's just :+1:) to underscore how annoying it is that commenting is the only thing that gives you any kind of hook with which to be able to look for the issue later. I was taking a look yesterday and I don't think it's even possible to find these issues via the API (which is completely beside the point of this issue anyway). I contacted GitHub support again today to reiterate my (and the about 120 other people on this thread) desire for this feature, but haven't heard back yet.

[jmm]

@epu You get issues that you're only subscribed to and have no other involvement with? If so, that's a new development.

[epu]

Ugh. No, I thought it was, but I found someone had mentioned me further down. And of course, almost every bug I am interested in, I've commented on. I'll keep on waiting. :/

[jmm]

@epu Ah, I see. It's weird to have this list of issues that you're subscribed to but no way to see it.

[quattrinili]

:+1: I agree, this feature should be implemented.

[hugochinchilla]

Please people, stop adding comments with +1, :+1: or similar, use the new reactions feature to show support instead so all subscribers can stop receiving useless notifications from this thread.

[xied75]

@hugochinchilla Everyone who came here to +1 have perfect understanding of the problem. How on earth can they suggest new reactions? e.g. Please add this feature otherwise human have no chance to beat AlphaGo?

p.s. I see in the human history you did exactly a "+1" in the timeline without any further new reactions. So apparently other people entitled to do the same?

And there is always the Unsubscribe button to click.