New Slack Integration : Notify users when they've unexpectedly stopped following a project (e.g. due to GitHub auth/SSO mismatch)
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Henna Abbas
Users can end up silently unfollowed from a project when their GitHub authentication changes — for example, switching between a personal GitHub account and an SSO-linked GitHub account. Today there's no notification when this happens, so the user only discovers it later when they notice they've stopped receiving build/workflow updates for a project they still care about.
Requested behavior:
- Notify the user when CircleCI detects they've been unfollowed from a project due to an auth/permission change (e.g. personal GitHub vs SSO GitHub identity mismatch), so they can re-follow or resolve the auth issue.
- More broadly, consider surfacing a nudge when a user appears to be missing from the follow list for a project they're clearly active on (e.g. they have commits/PRs on it) so they don't miss failures they'd want to know about.
This is related to (but distinct from) existing requests about being able to manually unfollow projects — this request is about being proactively notified when an unfollow happens involuntarily, or when a likely-relevant project isn't followed.