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.

Extension stats

By: bitoiu
Users: 11 ▼ -5
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

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

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.

Extension safety

Risk impact

GitHub Red Alert requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

GitHub Red Alert has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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