[sli]

One thing Github does that really bothers me is that if your paid account lapses, you must pay to get your private repos back. You don't have the option to simply set your repos to public. The only options Github gives you is pay money or lose your repos. As far as I care, that's practically extortion. So I moved to Gitlab.

Luckily, Github screwed up and temporarily unlocked my private repos, letting me grab the ones I didn't have locally and move them to Gitlab.

No opt-out option, no deal, Github. This is something that students should particularly take note of, because it applies to Github Education accounts, too.

[lzy]

I believe this is false. The private repos will be locked when you're no longer on a paid account but you can set them to public to regain access.

https://help.github.com/articles/unlocking-a-locked-personal...

[throwaway2016a]

That's interesting. I was under the impression they became read-only not completely inaccessible.