GitHub Red Alert

Changes the notification icon to red if you have participating notifications

What is GitHub Red Alert?

GitHub Red Alert is a Chrome extension that aims to enhance the user experience on GitHub by distinguishing participating notifications from general unread notifications. It changes the notification icon to red for easy identification of participating notifications.

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By: bitoiu

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Users: 15 ▼ -3

Version: 0.11 (Last updated: 2015-12-10)

Creation date: 2015-12-10

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

https://github.com/*
storage

Size: 3.12M

URLs: Website

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# 105227 ▼ 4663

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#34937 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 794

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Summary

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As a GitHub user I pay very close attention to the Participating notification, i.e. the notifications you get from participating on a thread or being directly mentioned by others (by handle or team). Unfortunately just by looking at the notification bell, there's no way to distinguish if the notifications are participating or generally unread. Since I don't follow generic Unread notifications as closely as I do the Participating ones, I decided to augment the UI to distinguish the two.

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Risk impact

GitHub Red Alert may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.