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### Why?

Until recently GitHub news feeds was really good and easy to use. It only contained the following feed items:
- Stars on your projects
- Someone followed you
- Someone forked your repo

Recently GitHub added a lots of stuff to the news feed making it cluttered. They even added release feeds from the starred repos.

I had opened a thread on GitHub community and found that it is a new GitHub feature. From the thread I also knew that most people are extremely unhappy about it, following are the main reasons:
- It kills the true purpose of stars: Stars were supposed to be used as a bookmark or the way of showing appreciation towards the project. Starring a project doesn't necessarily means that I want to follow the project's release updates. Its true purpose is to determine the popluarity of a project.
- There is already a release option under the watch menu.
- This feature is annoying since the news feed is getting cluttered due to the release feeds.
- People will miss the important notifications since their news feed is cluttered.

Discussions link: https://github.heygears.community/t/why-i-am-seeing-releases-from-repos-that-i-didnt-subscribed/184239

I developed this extension as temporary solution for the issue, so that I can remove all the junks from my feeds until GitHub adds a filter or remove this feature entirely. I am open sourcing this so that others can also use it.

## Supported Browsers
- Chrome
- Firefox
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## Installing via Github Releases

### Chrome
#### Chrome

* Open `chrome://extensions` in chrome
* Toggle the developer mode by clicking on the toggle button on the top right corner
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* Load extension in the browser using the **Load Unpacked** button. Point to the extracted release folder.
* Click on the extension icon and use it

### Firefox
#### Firefox
* Open `about:debugging` in firefox
* Click on This firefox option on left
* Download the latest release from the [releases page](https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/motrix-chrome-extension/releases/latest)
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* Once the extension is loaded you can see its icon in the toolbar
* Click on the extension icon and use it

### Edge
#### Edge

* Open `edge://extensions` in edge
* Toggle the developer mode by clicking on the toggle button on the left bottom corner
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* Load extension in the browser using the **Load Unpacked** button. Point to the extracted release folder.
* Click on the extension icon and use it



### Opera
#### Opera

* Open `opera://extensions` in opera
* Toggle the developer mode by clicking on the toggle button on the top right corner
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* Load extension in the browser using the **Load Unpacked** button. Point to the extracted release folder.
* Click on the extension icon and use it

## Why?

Until recently GitHub news feeds were really good and easy to use. It only contained the following feed items:
- Stars on your projects
- Followed you
- Forked your project

Recently GitHub added a lots of stuff to the news feed making it really cluttered. They even added release feeds from the starred repos.

I had opened a thread on GitHub community and found that it is a new GitHub feature. From the thread I also knew that most people are extremely unhappy about it, following are the main reasons:
- It kills the true purpose of stars: Stars were supposed to be used as a bookmark or the way of showing appreciation towards the project. Starring a project doesn't necessarily means that I want to follow the project's release updates. Its true purpose is to determine the popluarity of a project.
- There is already a release option under the watch menu.
- This feature is annoying since the news feed is getting cluttered due to the release feeds.
- People will miss the important notifications since their news feed is cluttered.

Discussions link: https://github.heygears.community/t/why-i-am-seeing-releases-from-repos-that-i-didnt-subscribed/184239

I developed this extension as temporary solution for the issue, so that I can remove all the junks from my feeds until GitHub adds a filter or remove this feature entirely. I am open sourcing this so that others can also use it.

## Development

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