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I went to go downgrade to the free plan and noticed that GitHub Pages static sites served from Private repos still require payment. That will keep me on $4/month for now.

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I'm curious: since GitHub Pages intended to PUBLISH pages, why to make the repo PRIVATE?

Sometimes people want to keep the code, commits, etc. private but maintain a blog

Use a private repo, attach a code action to publish your output of your favourite blog to static html output to a public GitHub pages repo.

Nobody's saying it's not possible with a hack or workaround, just that it doesn't work out of the box.

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