Releases don't show up in Explore Activity feed in the GitHub mobile app (Android)

[schutzelaars]

Since a month or so, the releases and discussions from my starred repo's don't show up in my Explore Activity feed. I checked the filters. Did something change, or is there something wrong? I only get the activities from the people I follow.

[Mickychen00]

Same phenomenon, even in browser side.

[schutzelaars]

It seems to be working again.

[Mickychen00]

Hi, unfortunately for me it doesn't work until now. The latest activity is 9 days ago. And I am sure that I choose all in the filter.

[schutzelaars]

Reopened the discussion for you.

[schutzelaars]

It just stopped working for me too on mobile.. But after I updated the filters inside the homepage dashboard (in the browser), it worked again.

[Mickychen00]

Hi! Thanks for your help. I find there seems to be an auto-close recently by Github for "Include events from starred repositories." After checking it, it works again.

So maybe we can close this issue.

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[hundehausen]

I have the same issue, sometimes on one device they show up, but since some time, no releases were shown in my feed at all.

[AliNouhpisheh]

@hundehausen @Nevarro Just found a fix for this issue. I was having the same problem. Go to your browser https://github.com/ -> Home -> Filters -> Scroll down -> Check: Include events from starred repositories

Thank you, it worked for me, on the web and the application, but after a while the problem persists again.

[ricard9dl]

Has the user contacted support or checked documentation for assistance with this problem?

[AliNouhpisheh]

You have to Turn on the (Releases Notification) Now

I Turned on the Notification (Releases Notification) for each Stared Repos, Now I can Easily Check New Releases.

I have 570 Stared Repos, so It took about 2Hours to do this.

Befor this, Explore started working fine for SOME of my Stared Repos (NOT all of it), so I Turned on the (Releases Notification) for each to Check (EVERY new releases)

I Just wanted to Share you the way you can Handle it, but it takes time, depending on the number of your Stared Repos

[AliNouhpisheh]

Sorry, the thing I didn't emphasize, was that It's still not working by the Explore itself

But if you do this, you don't even need Explore any more for releases (I turned off Releases in Explore as you can see)

Now I use Explore for "Recommendations, Announcements, etc", Not for Releases

In this case, my Releases (Which is the Main thing for me), is Seperated from other things and I can check it very neatly

Now I'm more convenient with it

[AliNouhpisheh]

If you want to receive new releases just in github (and not to get emails), you can turn it off in settings as you can see:
"CHECK on Github, UNCHECK Email"

[mahara]

So when will this issue eventually be solved?

[diveshthapa]

is this happing in some phone or specific mobile device or specific versions?

[hundehausen]

It's happening on all of my devices, but not always at the same time. Sometimes the GitHub App on my iPhone shows them, but the webbrowser does not.

[Abhay3333]

same mine its been 1 week in mobile app and web browser it is not showing any feed even using filter option in homepage.

[hundehausen]

Still happening. Any GitHub developer reading this?

[astudentinearth]

I'm having the same issue even though my filters are set correctly, not a single release is in my feed. I don't see updates from people I follow either. That's been going on for the last few days. Both mobile and web are affected in my case.

[bobhigs]

I've also been having this issue for literal months. The only filters I have on is "Releases" and "Include events from starred repositories" and it's showing me nothing even though there have been several releases of my starred repos in the last few hours. The feed seems to randomly decide multiple times and day to start and stop working. Typically when it actually works I take a moment to scroll through a few pages so their loaded in case it just breaks again.

Usually I can fix this by toggling a random combination of filters off and on, although that doesn't even always fix it. That's been the case for a few days now - the page is just literally showing nothing. This is true on both the website and mobile app. If I toggle other filters on, I do see their results, but never releases.

[hundehausen]

This is the perfect description for the error. It's going on since months and gotten worse and worse, until now it doesn't work at all, not even with the trick of the filters.

[AliNouhpisheh]

Have you tried a (VPN)?

[bobhigs]

@AliNouhpisheh A VPN is a good idea that I should have probably considered. I am in fact already using a VPN on both devices I tested on. I turned it off and messed around with the feed configuration a bit and still couldn't get it to update.

[hundehausen]

I had no luck with VPN either.

[astudentinearth]

Same story, VPN didn't seem to change anything. It's as if the feed shows releases when it feels like doing so.

[hundehausen]

Today I also submitted I bug report. I suggest you guys to do the same, especially with @bobhigs perfect description.
https://support.github.com/contact/bug-report

[achtchaern]

Same issue. It has been occurring for several months, but in the last few days, it got way more often and is harder to get around (by randomly toggling filters). Created a bug report. I'm on desktop btw.

[snaka0213]

Same issue. For few months, I haven’t been able to receive release updates for my starred repositories on the Explore page, whether on the iOS app or in the browser. It was really convenient to check release updates in a timeline format, so if this is a bug, I hope it gets fixed. Created a bug report.

[snaka0213]

Update: I took the following steps to fix the issue. I opened GitHub in a browser, then Home > Filter > checked Include events from starred repositories. This change was then reflected in the app.

[maxdzin]

Update: I took the following steps to fix the issue. I opened GitHub in a browser, then Home > Filter > checked Include events from starred repositories. This change was then reflected in the app.

I started using this method from the beginning of this problem. About a month ago it stopped working at all. So, the most important function of the home page disappeared.
And this is not the first or second time this has happened.
A day ago this method worked again, so at least I can see new releases. But is it for long?
I wish the GitHub team to find a decent solution to this problem.

[Lorondos]

This has suddenly started happening for me as well, seems the activity feed randomly decides what it shows regardless of filter settings (toggling them on and off changes what it shows with inconsistent results with nothing being shown the most common)

[AvenCores]

for more than 3 months now my release feed has not been working (sometimes it shows once every couple of days, then after a couple of reboots it breaks)

problem on PC and phone

[muffoi]

This issue still persists on my device (iOS 18). It started by removing random items from the tabs. Later the card order reversed (making it go from oldest to newest) and all Releases were removed. Then the tab order suddenly reversed back. Now I can't see any Releases and no new items are being added to the Activity tab even though I'm pretty sure that there should be new items appearing.

[muffoi]

I have found a solution to this. See my post

[K2ouMais]

I am also having the same problem for months now.

The same problem is on Android and iOS.

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/142289

[Elelan]

For me also Releases are not showing up in Feed.
I tried all the filters

[a1994sc]

Same.... It has been broken for a month or so for me....

[m0h4x]

i have also the same problem on the mobile app on the iphone. At a certain point a few weeks ago suddenly i see only followers. Unselected filters on mobile and reselected them and for a few minutes that fixed the issue. But after a few minutes it went back to showing only the followers. Now tried to reset filter settings in the browser and got no changes. So still doesnt work for me.

[merlinz01]

It's working again for me now.

[K2ouMais]

Nope... Still not working on iOS and Android devices.

[fullerzz]

This issue has been plaguing me long enough that I threw together some thoughts on what I'm guessing could be happening.

Important

Please poke holes in this theory if you have evidence to the contrary! I'm not claiming to be correct. I would just like this problem fixed 😄

Theory

The releases show up in the activity feed during times of low overall site load for GitHub.

I noticed the server that handles GET https://github.com/conduit/for_you_feed
returns HTML not JSON. I think it will give up trying to retrieve releases from your starred repos if that request takes too long.

I assume that as part of building the HTML response for the for-you feed, the server will make requests to retrieve the following:

• Announcements
• Releases
• Sponsors
• Stars
• Repositories
• Repository activity
• Follows
• Recommendations

Note

Of course any of the above elements can be filtered out by the user.

It seems like this server will silently fail to retrieve the releases list, but return the rest of the elements that make up the for-you feed.

I'm guessing a lot of us experiencing this issue have 100+ starred repos. As a result, searching for new releases in your starred repos will take longer than a user who only has 20 starred repos.

Supporting Evidence

• Releases show up in my feed most commonly after 19:00 (UTC-7) on weekdays
• Releases show up in my feed most of the time on weekends
  • My activity feed showed releases from my starred repos on 12/28 00:57 (UTC-7) and 12/29 13:00 (UTC-7) when I checked this past weekend.
  • It is BROKEN again as of 12/30 12:32 (UTC-7)

TL/DR

Users with a large number of starred repos will have the API call to retrieve new releases silently time out, so no releases are shown in the activity feed.

[kevATin]

I had similar suspicions since a while and personally I have over 600 starred repos. Though I expect Github to be able to handle such numbers, otherwise I don't see the point of the star system except for simple bookmarking.
Very rarely my feed fixes itself, but even in such cases it feels like some entries might be missing.

[muffoi]

The explore tab is still not working for me and I have only 8 starred repos. I would expect it to work according to your theory

[AliNouhpisheh]

You have to Turn on the (Releases Notification) Now

I Turned on the Notification (Releases Notification) for each Stared Repos, Now I can Easily Check New Releases.

I have 570 Stared Repos, so It took about 2Hours to do this.

Befor this, Explore started working fine for SOME of my Stared Repos (NOT all of it), so I Turned on the (Releases Notification) for each to Check (EVERY new releases)

I Just wanted to Share you the way you can Handle it, but it takes time, depending on the number of your Stared Repos

[muffoi]

I did what you said should help, but there are still missing cards in the Activity section (Explore tab).

Instead, I'm getting emails and notifications silently sent to the Notifications tab every time a new release is released.

What I did is that I have gone through all my starred repos and selected Releases under notification settings. Did I do anything wrong?

[maxdzin]

@AliNouhpisheh This will send notifications about releases and emails. But releases still appear randomly on the activity page, and not all of them.

[AliNouhpisheh]

Sorry, the thing I didn't emphasize, was that It's still not working by the Explore itself

But if you do this, you don't even need Explore any more for releases (I turned off Releases in Explore as you can see)

Now I use Explore for "Recommendations, Announcements, etc", Not for Releases

In this case, my Releases (Which is the Main thing for me), is Seperated from other things and I can check it very neatly

Now I'm more convenient with it

[AliNouhpisheh]

If you want to receive new releases just in github (and not to get emails), you can turn it off in settings as you can see:
"CHECK on Github, UNCHECK Email"

[astudentinearth]

In the last few days the explore feed straight up stopped loading for me. I've tried both on mobile and desktop, with both my home wi-fi and mobile data plan. Is anybody else having the same problem? I'll check to see if there is a separate discussion for this and update the comment with a link if there is.

Edit: Related discussion thread
Second edit: Unchecking "Repository Activity" from the filters fixed the issue. Play with filters if you have the same problem.

[AliNouhpisheh]

You have to Turn on the (Releases Notification) Now

I Turned on the Notification (Releases Notification) for each Stared Repos, Now I can Easily Check New Releases.

I had 570 Stared Repos, so It took about 2Hours to do this.

Befor this, Explore started working fine for SOME of my Stared Repos (NOT all of it), so I Turned on the (Releases Notification) for each to Check (EVERY new releases)

I Just wanted to Share you the way you can Handle it, but it takes time, depending on the number of your Stared Repos

[AliNouhpisheh]

Sorry, the thing I didn't emphasize, was that It's still not working by the Explore itself

But if you do this, you don't even need Explore any more for releases (I turned off Releases in Explore as you can see)

Now I use Explore for "Recommendations, Announcements, etc", Not for Releases

In this case, my Releases (Which is the Main thing for me), is Seperated from other things and I can check it very neatly

Now I'm more convenient with it

[AliNouhpisheh]

If you want to receive new releases just in github (and not to get emails), you can turn it off in settings as you can see:
"CHECK on Github, UNCHECK Email"

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[muffoi]

How to Fix This

An update on this: There's a feature that allows to filter out starred repositories from the Explore tab on mobile and Home section on browser.

• To enable it back, you'll have to go to the website homepage on desktop (https://github.com/).
• On the right from "Home" header, open the "Filters" dropdown and scroll to the bottom.
• Enable "Include events from starred repositories".

This will show all previous events from starred repos too and will apply to both mobile app and the website.

Note: Every time you change the filter settings on mobile app, ALL STARRED REPOS WILL BE HIDDEN AGAIN. To fix this, follow the guide again and enable the filter as said.

[peterhirn]

Releases for specific repos never show up in my feed, eg.

• https://github.com/nodejs/node
• https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm
• https://github.com/renovatebot/renovate

What these repos have in common is that the have 100+ or even 1000+ releases. I'm thinking this could be the reason they are skipped when generating the feed?

[muffoi]

In my Explore tab, after applying my fix, all starred repos' releases are visible. One of them being https://github.com/electron/electron with 1711 releases as of today. Can you see this repo when starring it?

[peterhirn]

Thanks for info. Electron releases do show up, so the issue probably isn't caused by a large amount of releases. 🤔

[MrParosk]

Anyone else still having this issue? Tried the fix @muffoi suggested but my feed filter can't even load...

[duongnly]

JUST started randomly having this same issue yesterday and my filter button also just keeps loading indefinitely

[AliNouhpisheh]

Yes, I have this problem too, Now I'm using Notifications instead

You can use it via Bell Icon: 🔔 next to fork icon:

Open Repository → click on Bell Icon → custom → releases

you will not see previous releases, but you will see the next releases (in Inbox Section, Not Explore) from now on

[jxpeng98]

I have the same issue. I changed browsers, but they all fail to load the filter. I can only see the loading circle.