why we cannot see stars notifications on org feed?

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why we cannot see stars notifications on org feed?

[its-jani]

Hey! This is a super common point of confusion. The short answer is: it's an intentional design choice by GitHub to prevent feed spam.

Think about it from the perspective of an organization with a popular open-source repo. If every single star triggered a notification in the main org feed, it would completely bury the actionable stuff your team actually needs to see—like pull requests, issue mentions, and deployment failures. GitHub optimizes the org feed for high-signal collaboration events rather than social metrics.

If you really want to track new stars for your organization's repositories, you have a couple of better options than relying on the feed:

1. Slack/Discord Webhooks (The best way)
   Set up a webhook at the organization or repository level listening specifically for the watch event (which is what GitHub's API calls a star). You can pipe this directly into a dedicated "#github-stars" channel in Slack or Discord. That way, you get to celebrate the stars without cluttering your actual work notifications.

2. Repository Insights
   If you don't need real-time alerts, you can just periodically check the Insights -> Pulse tab on your individual repositories, which gives you a summary of how many stars were added over a given period.

Hope that clears up why it works that way!