---
title: "Railway Station, Native GitHub Deployments, and Priority Threads"
date: 2024-05-10
number: 0185
url: https://railway.com/changelog/2024-05-10-railway-station
---

# Railway Station, Native GitHub Deployments, and Priority Threads

Greetings Passengers!

Welcome to another installment of the changelog. 

This collector’s edition is stamped #0185 and it’s in mint condition. 

This week we’ll be taking you on a journey through our internal (non-core) infrastructure, some updates to how Railway writes to your GitHub, and we’ll be introducing a new help feature called Priority Threads. 

But before we get to that, two quick announcements:

1. There’s still time to apply to the first cohort of the [Railway Startup Program](https://startup.railway.app/) ($5,000 in free credits) — make sure to read the criteria before applying
2. We’ve added a few new [Career opportunities](https://railway.app/careers#open-positions) — reach out if you’re interested in solving complex problems at the intersection of distributed systems engineering and interface design

Sound good? Great.

Let’s get on with our regularly scheduled programming.

## Railway Station

[Video: Railway Station is a public project that powers the majority of our non-core application experiences]

Last week we published “[Building Railway on Railway](https://blog.railway.app/p/building-railway-on-railway),” an in-depth look at the public project that powers our forum, docs, blog, and various other production services. 

This is a big deal for a few reasons:

- We open-sourced nearly the entire project, infrastructure and all
- We depend on this project to serve hundreds of thousands of users
- We’re getting closer to the “ultimate” production demo application

We did this because we want you to explore the production services — running on Railway — that we use everyday. You can check out the project [here](https://railway.app/project/e766c469-fd0c-4a8c-99c9-d673de872294).

And if you didn’t get a chance to read the writeup yet, we recommend you [check that out](https://blog.railway.app/p/building-railway-on-railway) as well.

We hope you like it. 

## GitHub Deployment Bot Updates

[Image: Railway now writes human-friendly messages to your GitHub status feed with handy links back to Railway]

Next up, we’ve made some improvements to the railway-app bot in GitHub. 

- The bot now comments with a list of services and statuses 
- The comments now link back to the relevant Railway deployment
- Latest deployments are now listed in the root of the GitHub project
- There’s direct linking to Railway deployment logs

We’re using GitHub’s native deployment/environments feature to get this done. 

For comments and feedback, please [drop us a line](https://help.railway.app/feedback?sort=highest_votes) in the forum.

## Priority Threads

A few months back we shipped “Private Threads.” As the name would imply, this feature allowed Pro users to create private threads.

However, while these threads had a higher precedence internally, we noticed often that many of these issues COULD have been addressed by the broader community.

So, instead of forcing Pro users to decide, we built the best of both worlds — a way to post publicly while maintaining this prioritization internally.

We call this feature ***Priority Threads. ***We think this is going to give our Pro users the fastest possible resolutions, while also allowing us to consolidate discussion points publicly.

[Image: A screenshot of our redesigned help panel that we rolled out to all users.]

## Features and Improvements

- We improved the accuracy of the [health score](https://railway.app/changelog/2024-02-02-template-health#improved-template-metrics) given to templates in the [Template Marketplace](https://railway.app/templates)
- We added a link to the relevant GitHub PR in the environment selector for [PR Environments](https://docs.railway.app/guides/environments#enable-pr-environments)
- We fixed a bug where [Service Groups](https://railway.app/changelog/2024-03-01-plugins-deleted#service-groups-beta) would not always delete when deleting a project 
- We fixed a bug where log pagination was using the wrong date when loading more logs in the "down" direction
- We adjusted the y-axis in our [Metrics](https://docs.railway.app/guides/metrics) charts to make it easier to read in most cases