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by RamblingCTO 1337 days ago
Thank you, that's actually very important information. So it wasn't taken down, it was just set to private:

> the repository has been made private (only contributors will be able to access the repo for now)

Huge difference and imho quite ok until things are clear.

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Well, from the owner's perspective, it was marked private, without any additional communication.

From a visitor's perspective, it just became a 404 page, also without explanation, so effectively taken down.

I understand taken down as removed, but I can see that one could also define it as "unavailable".
From a site visitor's perspective, what is the difference?