Well, you could say the same thing about most notifications including most emails, yet people presumably like notifications so much they'll get them delivered straight to their wrist watch.

I don't see how Github is much different in this regard. Besides, maybe you want the notifications while on the clock.

Email notifications should be disabled. Email is also never urgent enough to disrupt your life.

I would quite like to know when a PR is in movement that I'm involved in.

Why is that so important that it needs to disrupt you? Constant notifications are terrible for productivity.

Email notifications.

I'd rather get an app notification than an email notification for pretty much everything I can think of. I'd be surprised if I wasn't in the vast majority on this.

Well, if I can consolidate all my notifications to email, then only one application on my phone needs to have a constant/reoccurring connection to a server for push notifications. Instead of fifteen of the things all acting independently.

Benefit of using an app notification always would come down to platform specific experiences. But replying to github threads over email has been something that I don't have to think twice about