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> We’re happy to announce we’re making private repositories with unlimited collaborators available to all GitHub accounts.

Huh, I thought github made private repos available to free github accounts a while ago?

Looking for historical announcement, aha, it was not with "unlimited collaborators" before.

From Jan 2019:

> GitHub Free now includes unlimited private repositories. For the first time, developers can use GitHub for their private projects with up to three collaborators per repository for free.

https://github.blog/2019-01-07-new-year-new-github/

So what's new is dropping the 3-collaborators-per-repo restriction.

I hadn't actually realized this restriction was there, apparently I've never used a private github repo in a free account! And the messaging from a year ago stuck in my head as "private repos are free on github now", I thought they had already done what they did today, oops.

Above natfriedman writes:

> We've wanted to make this change for the last 18 months,

So apparently they had wanted to do this even in Jan 2019 when they did something less than this...



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