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If a user stops paying (excepting free service for those unable to pay), will their repositories be deleted? My main concern is link rot: if a project was created on GitHub in 2012, links to it will almost certainly point to the same code today, even if the owner has long forgotten about it, so long as they haven't actively deleted their account. I've found that the same is rarely true for bespoke self-hosted Git servers. Many disappear within 3 years or less, without any redirects to a new location; I've had to copy many of these repos to my GitHub account from a local copy. So how worried do I need to be about the longevity of sr.ht links?


We will place your account into a read-only mode following a grace period if you don't pay up. I hate link rot and I have no intention of contributing to it with SourceHut.




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