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...