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		martypitt on Oct 29, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ElasticSearch and many other repos are gone 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 on Oct 29, 2024 | [–]

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

Watch: 194 Forks: 0 Stars: 183

colechristensen on Oct 29, 2024 | [–]

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.

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