[martypitt]

I seem to remember someone posting about this once -- you lose all your stars / followers when going public -> private, and they're not restored when you go back.

[horsawlarway]

You can see this now on the link in the post. The repo is currently sitting at

Watch: 194 Forks: 0 Stars: 183

[colechristensen]

I would bet, as a result of this and other things like fork management, that they'll be working with GitHub support to try to reverse the go-private and all its consequences.