https://github.com/marketplace/actions/lock-threads I believe the majority of comments we receive on closed GitHub issues belong elsewhere, either as new forum topics, or new GitHub issues. Call it a character flaw, but I find the behavior annoying, and tend to ignore comments on closed issues. I …

I agree, I will put it on my TODO list … My favourite is the scenario where I Close and issue where I tell them to ask a question here And, without fail, 30 seconds after I close it there is a comment about “… but this looks like a bug to me”

I think you have exercised a marvelous degree of restraint, because what pops into my head is, “What part of “No” do you not understand?” Like I said, probably a character flaw…

I added that GH action in the Hugo repo and noticed it ran last night, feel free to adjust the settings …

I’m getting plenty of notifications about the auto-closed issues.

I am swamped with work at the moment and whenever I go to GitHub, I have to take a minute and remove these necro notifications. This is super annoying. Any idea how to disable these notifications? Anyone?

Automatically lock GitHub issues N days after they are closed

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Automatically lock GitHub issues N days after they are closed

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