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I'm sure @schneems would accept a PR with this feature ;)

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I'm not sure I fully understand the nuances behind this feature request. The goal is to limit the number of total issues you receive, which i do understand but the mechanism is somewhat removed from this desire. I'm interested in hearing more about why you originally subscribed to so many repos to begin with?

I've heard two separate requests a few times that I believe together would satisfy your desires. First: variable timing on issues. Some people don't want to get an issue every day, some not on weekends: allow people to sign up for when they want to receive issues. This will help limit issue overload.

The second feature is allow people to subscribe to a language in addition to a specific repo. You would receive a random issue from a random repo flagged with that language. Many people want to discover new repos and explore the ecosystem of their chosen programming language. I'm guessing the desire for selecting 15 repos was to get a broad overview of your language, additional insight would be appreciated.

My worry with this feature request is that the people who want or need it will not think to look in this location so it is not used, or that people who do set it will forget about it and inadvertently miss new issues.

As i'm typing I realize that this request could fill a void not covered by either prior feature. I'll think on it.

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I love the language subscription idea, actually. That's definitely something I would use, and if you're interested in it I'd be up for submitting a pull request on that too.

Re the worry that people won't think to look for this feature on limiting the number of issues they receive per day - I actually think that's solvable by fleshing out the documentation, which would be helpful generally. (For instance, it currently says that the daily email will come with instructions on how to triage those issues, but it doesn't.)

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@schneems here's my story that led me to want a "total limit per day".

I signed up for codetriage and added one repo: flask. I've used flask before and I'm very interested in python, so I figured it would be a good fit. I quickly realized two things. first, I didn't always have time for one issue per day. this could be resolved by your "variable timing on issues" idea. but second and more importantly, I found that I frequently didn't have the expertise to solve every issue. I got really discouraged and unsubscribed.

a few weeks later, I had an idea. I don't think it's realistic for me to solve one issue per day. what if I used codetriage as a way to gain exposure to new software and new languages and occasionally solve an issue? with that in mind, I went and subscribed to a bunch of repos. I picked a few projects I already know and love, I picked a few projects that sounded interesting and I picked a few projects from languages I haven't had a chance to use. I was so excited to see which project would send me an issue the next day. was I going to need to install a Go compiler or an Erlang environment? or would I be hacking Python for some tool I hadn't tried?

instead, I encountered information overload from 15 issues in a single email! I don't even have enough time to read 15 issues in one day, let alone try and reproduce or solve them.

tl;dr: I want to use codetriage to gain bite-sized exposure to languages and projects I never would have used otherwise.

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@neoice Does that mean one / two mails selected randomly from the repos that you have subscribed rather than one issue each for the repos that you have subscribed

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Am I wrong, or is this already a feature? If you click on your username to view your account, then click 'Edit my account', there's an option for selecting how many issues you receive each day.

I'd like to close this issue, and open up other issues for the ideas in this thread if you think they're worth pursuing.

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This is a feature added when my pull requested was accepted about 5 months ago. It should be safe to close this issue.

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@Graysonwright @DanielleSucher Thanks. I am closing this. Lets have more discussion on subscribing to language and other ideas in new issues

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