Managing user account settings

You can visit your personal dashboard to keep track of issues and pull requests you're working on or following, navigate to your top repositories and team pages, stay updated on recent activities in organizations and repositories you're subscribed to, and explore recommended repositories.

You can manage how GitHub looks to you by setting a theme preference that either follows your system settings or always uses a light or dark mode.

You can manage the number of spaces a tab is equal to for your personal account.

You can change the username for your account on GitHub.com.

A repository owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the repository owner and collaborators.

A project board owned by a personal account has two permission levels: the project board owner and collaborators.

GitHub's user interface can adapt to your vision, hearing, motor, cognitive, or learning needs.

You can set the default branch name for new repositories that you create on GitHub.com.

You can control features that secure and analyze the code in your projects on GitHub.

As a project board owner, you can add or remove a collaborator and customize their permissions to a project board.

You can control how GitHub uses information from non-essential tracking cookies for enterprise marketing pages.

Use the Available for hire checkbox to view GitHub Jobs posts within GitHub.