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Most people in this thread seem to be ignoring another very major cause: the inconsistent naming for personal READMEs between users and organizations. Users have their README at username/username, but orgs have it at orgname/.github

Nothing else on GitHub is like this: orgs and users are treated as the same class of entity pretty much all the time. I could easily see myself making the same mistake on autopilot.

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They have a bunch of differences under the hood, particularly when you want to give perms. It makes sense, sort of, on its face, that a user can’t have teams, but why? That decision is pretty arbitrary, to me. Then in GHE, users and orgs have all sorts of fun differences when you consider things like internal/public/private and how people can interact with them; to wit, if you’re in ANY team you can see ANY internal repo in an org, but if you’re limited to just personal repos, you can see no such things.

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