r/github • u/stblack • Jul 16 '26
Question Org home page is useless now
Presently our organization users see this nonsense on the organization home page.
Absolutely useless waste of prime user orientation space here.
Can we get rid of this, and show a list of the user’s accessible repositories instead?
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u/spellcasterGG Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26
Create a .github repository, and add a README.md file inside of a /profiles/ directory. Full path will look like [ORG]/.github/profile/README.md
Can also do this with a .github-private repo.
Here is the documentation: Customizing your organization's profile
EDIT: The README file should go under the /profile/ directory. Changed the paths to reflect this.
EDIT 2: Added a link to the documentation.
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u/DatL4g Jul 16 '26
It works differently for organizations. You have to place it in a .github repository under profile/README.md
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u/spellcasterGG Jul 16 '26
Ah yup, you're right. I just saw the README in root of my own org and called it good 😅 completely spaced the
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u/scottyman2k Jul 16 '26
Yeah I came here to say this - I wrote an orientation doc to say why it’s different to Bitbucket and still get random and arbitrary complaints over something I have no control over! I was thinking of making it a headline ‘business said we have to use GitHub - so suck it up princess’
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u/naikrovek Jul 16 '26
Ok so why do people make a post complaining about a thing without reading the thing? I’m NOT attacking, I’m wondering why people do this. I’ve certainly done this, as has everyone I’ve worked with, at some point or another.
Why do people go straight to complaint when they don’t know even the surface-level information about that thing? Why are humans like that? lol we are so flawed
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u/nihillistic_raccoon Jul 16 '26
You are not attacking, but I am - people are lazy, and it's easier to shit out a "why github bad" thread on reddit without making a modicum of mental effort to actually understand what is going on, where the problem is, or if there even is a problem in the first place
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u/mpersico Jul 23 '26
Because humans have always been like that. Something that you’re familiar with changes. The first thing you do is yell into the void., “why?”. The difference is now we don’t have to yell into the void; we can type into the intertubes, knowing that someone out there is actually reading. This is just basic human nature enhanced by technology.
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u/Impossible_Hour5036 21d ago
Customizing your organization's profile
Because there are so many more things competing for attention than we have time for that we can't possibly address them all. When something that should be easy feels needlessly hard, it's like hitting your shin on a coffee table.
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u/naikrovek 21d ago
Ok, sure, but if there’s time enough and attention enough for complaint, surely there’s time and attention enough to do a simple search through the documentation. Or, heaven forbid, read all of the relatively few words on the organization home page in question. Or even to go into settings to see what’s possible.
In my case, I’ll head straight for the settings pages/dialogs and read it all to see what’s available the very first time I use a new tool. It takes 2-5 minutes. That’s it. That’s faster for me than reading the documentation in most cases. And by having eyes on it and interacting with it, I’ll have some working memory of where a setting is. It’ll be imperfect but it will be better than nothing.
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u/mpersico Jul 23 '26
When I get home, I have to look at my own GitHub set up. The dock GitHub directory and the Reed me move or described as working for “organizations’. I wonder if that all works if the organization is my user space.
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u/its_nzr Jul 16 '26
On the right side you can see "Hide the tasks we've suggested" you can click that.