Learn about Notifications on GitHub

[galileo-dev-app[bot]]

@hollenberry, you might already know that notifications from GitHub can be harrowing! Depending on how many repositories you're involved with, and how active they are, you may already be overwhelmed with notifications. You can get the full scoop with lots of details about notifications in GitHub's help documentation.

We're going to talk just a bit about where notifications come from, and how they come to you.

First, let's talk about how notifications come to you.

There are two types of notifications: web notifications and email notifications. You can choose to receive GitHub notifications through GitHub's interface or through your email. You can specify certain repositories to generate email notifications, and other repositories to only generate web notifications. You can even have notifications from different repositories go to different email inboxes!

You can find and edit these settings in the "notifications" section of your user settings.

Once you're comfortable with this, please comment by @mentioning the user @githubteacher. This will generate a notification for that user.

[hollenberry]

githubteacher

[galileo-dev-app[bot]]

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[hollenberry]

@ githubteacher

[galileo-dev-app[bot]]

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[hollenberry]

@githubteacher

[galileo-dev-app[bot]]

Great! Now that you know how you can manage the notifications that come to you in your settings, let's talk about where notifications come from and how to manage them more granularly.

Just as you @mentioned the user @githubteacher, they recieved a notification. Notifications come from a lot of places, including @mentions, comments on issues or pull requests that might be relevant to you, or any activity in a repository you're watching.

Once you commented on this issue, you were automatically "subscribed", meaning you will receive notifications for every comment that follows. To change this, you can "unsubscribe" from this issue. It isn't permanent - if I @mention you again, you'll be resubscribed. This is a good strategy to keep the noise down if you notice your inbox is filling up with things that might not be relevant to you.

This also means that others who have commented in an issue may not necessarily get notifications. It's a good idea to always @mention the users or teams who you want to look at your comment, so that you can be sure they'll get a notification.

To move on to the next activity, close this issue.

[galileo-dev-app[bot]]

Great job! Your next instructions can be found in the next issue. See you there!