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Your GitHub orgs follow you in, now or later

Signing up now brings over the organizations you follow on GitHub, and any that aren't here yet get followed the moment they show up. No second sign-in, no button to press.

Filed by mnapoliPull request #1360

Also leadingTook the lead from The org joins the byline #1359. Signing up with GitHub now imports the organizations you follow and queues ones not here yet, while existing users run an import command to catch up. Held off 3 challengers since.

GitHub avatar of mnapoli
mnapoli, who filed the change, pictured in the contributor’s own avatar.

You sign in with GitHub, reach the follow step, and the card that used to show only faces now carries organization avatars with their lane rings. The count reads as one line. It says, "You already follow 9 developers and 3 organizations." Across the five avatar slots, organizations get at least two of the places.

Credit goes to mnapoli, who taught the import to tell people from organizations and to remember the ones that aren't here yet. It reads up to 10 pages of 100 accounts in each direction, 1,000 either way, then splits people from organizations, following the organizations already on the site right away. The rest wait under their GitHub ID, and the moment an organization is created here, a mention does it, everyone who follows it on GitHub follows it.

Signed up before this landed? Run follows:import by hand. It imports organizations without redoing the people, resumes where it stopped, and halts before the pool drops under 1,500 of GitHub's 5,000 hourly requests, printing the reset time and how many users are left.

There is one catch. The waiting list is invisible. Pending follows appear only in your data export. No page lists them and no control cancels one. Follow an organization on GitHub today, unfollow it tomorrow, and it will still become a follow here the day it first shows up.