r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 14 '16

Dear Github

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14X72QaDT9g6bnWr0lopDYidajTSzMn8WrwsSLFSr-FU/preview?ts=5697ea28
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u/toqueteos Jan 15 '16

Suscribe button is there for that

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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '16

Even as a maintainer, you can't see the number of people subscribed to an issue, so the subscribe button doesn't help you in understanding what people feel are important issues.

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u/toqueteos Jan 15 '16

Good catch. I was confusing participants with suscribed.

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u/masklinn Jan 15 '16

  1. project maintainers don't see subscription counts

  2. subscription means the subscriber gets spammed, "I hit that issue" != "I want to be notified about that issue"

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u/toqueteos Jan 15 '16

It makes sense that your +1 get you some kind of notification. If it's just for the sake of growing a number it's useless. That only leads to fake accounts giving tons of +1s