I have no idea who decided this idiotic new feed with no way to switch back to the fairly useful and simple old one was an idea worth implementing, but they clearly have no business being involved in these types of decisions.
My new 'feed' is totally useless, and seems stuck on one ancient starred project that did a release.
I worry about the radical incompetence level on display here, but then again, using github was always something I did to help my users find the project and file issues, I have always disliked github, and was expecting some total garbage to be released after microsoft bought github.
This failed idea certainly seems to confirm my expectations.
At least give users the choice, you can just make it a toggle selector, wording something like this:
original, usable, useful feed method | new, totally useless and failed feed method.
But really, who made this decision, was it a committee? It clearly was not made by an actual active user of this service, with active repos that they run, which is of course what I want to see on my feed primarily, and now there is zero, I have literally no idea what is going on with my projects now anymore.
Just fire whoever did this, consider it their resignation, and restore the old one, and find something useful to work on.
The link to old feed isn't useful because there's nothing else on that page except the feed, so clearly all they have to do is add in the selector for which feed to see, then here's a radical suggestion, watch and see how many people select either. If the number for the old is greater than a few percent, then leave the option and find other ways to break things that worked fine.
I agree, the confusion involved in trying to make github a social media platform is massive, this is a code repository. I really wish googlecode had not fallen by the wayside, that was a far superior code repo in almost every way.