Apology for Repository Visibility Changes That Caused Stars Disappeared · hexojs · Discussion #5775

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Hi everyone,

I want to sincerely apologize for the accidental changes of visibility from public to private in our important repository hexojs/hexo earlier today. Which means we lost all watchers, all forks and around 41.3K stars.

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While using the GitHub CLI, I intended to change the visibility of one of my own personal repositories. However, I executed the gh repo edit shell command in the wrong working directory and mistakenly changed the hexojs/hexo from public to private.
As a result, the repository lost its stars, watchers, forks.

Now I have changed the repository back to public. But it seems that the number of stars and watchers won't be restored.

This was entirely my mistake, I take full responsibility for the error. I’m truly sorry for the disruption and inconvenience to the project and everyone involved. It took more than 14 years of effort and contributions for this project to accumulate around 40K stars, and because of my mistake, we lost all of them. I truly feel deeply sorry and upset about what happened. I want to sincerely apologize to the founder of this project and to every member of the community.

I am very sorry.

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