Too many email notifications

[neilernst]

I am getting ~80 import notifications and ~80 "subscribed to update" notifications, for each assignment. A setting to turn off email notifications per repo would be great.

See https://education.github.community/t/too-many-email-announcements-for-each-hw-repo/17068/8

[aaossa]

AFAIK you can't turn off those notifications because they come from GitHub itself, and not from this project. The best you could do (to avoid further "spam") is "unwatch" the new repositories. You can see your watched repos here: https://github.com/watching

PS: Even in the post you linked that's the answer...

[neilernst]

That’s an answer but not a good one, hence the issue.

On Sep 23, 2017, at 08:45, Antonio Ossa [email protected] wrote:

AFAIK you can't turn off those notifications because they come from GitHub itself, and not from this project. The best you could do (to avoid further "spam") is "unwatch" the new repositories. You can see your watched repos here: https://github.com/watching

PS: Even in the post you linked that's the answer...

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[tarebyte]

@neilernst @aaossa is correct, we currently can't turn off these email notifications, but I am looking into it.

[jlinseman]

Any updates on this issue. Its almost been a year.

[cottrell]

I've also noticed that when you edit your watched repos, all your own repos are watched by you. Seems like it bloats the interface a bit.

[hydrodog]

This is a huge issue for any teacher with a lot of students. You are sending me hundreds of emails. Unwatching the repo is worse than the emails. I shouldn't be watching the repo in the first place.

[aaossa]

A possible solution would be to ignore or unwatch repositories automatically once created (https://developer.github.com/v3/activity/watching/#set-a-repository-subscription), but the ideal solution (not technically available ATM) is "unwatch on create" or never even watch (in this method: https://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#create). Maybe the first API method could be called if the user wants to, but is just an opinion (and I'm not a fan of it). @tarebyte any updates on this?

[tag]

Really want to give a +1 to this.

I have ~150 students, and we'll do multiple repos throughout the semester. I don't have the time to even unsubscribe to deluge of notifications.

[dirkcgrunwald]

Another "amen" - 100 students, too much email.

[wjakob]

@tarebyte: I was trying to find out how to disable all of these notifications and only found this closed thread. I don't think this issue should have been closed, it is a very real problem.