Now that you know the basics of the GitHub platform, let’s look at how to manage certain aspects of it.

In this unit, we will cover:

• Managing notifications and subscriptions
• Subscribing to discussion threads and finding threads where you are mentioned
• Showcasing your project or organization through GitHub Pages

Managing notifications and subscriptions

You can choose to receive continuous updates on certain activities on GitHub.com through a subscription.
Notifications are updates you receive for specific activities you are subscribed to.

Subscription options

You can choose to subscribe to notifications for:

• A conversation in a specific issue, pull request, or gist
• CI activity, such as workflow status in repositories configured with GitHub Actions
• Issues, pull requests, releases, security alerts, or discussions (if enabled) in a repository
• All activity in a repository

In some cases, you are automatically subscribed to conversations on GitHub.
For example, when you open a pull request or an issue, comment on a thread, or are assigned to an issue or pull request.

If a conversation no longer interests you, you can unsubscribe, stop following, or customize the types of notifications you will receive in the future.

If you want to find issues mentioning a specific user, you can use the qualifier mentions: to search for them.

What is GitHub Pages?

To conclude our journey on GitHub, let’s talk about GitHub Pages.
You can use GitHub Pages to publish and host a website about yourself, your organization, or your project, directly from a repository on GitHub.com.

GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files directly from a GitHub repository.
You can also, if you wish, run these files through a build process before publishing the site.
Simply edit and push your changes, and your project will be published in a visually organized way.

Next step: hands-on exercise

In the next exercise, you will:

• Create a new repository
• Create a new branch
• Commit a file
• Open a pull request
• And merge a pull request