While looking over my GitHub account settings just now, I noticed that you can now designate a successor:
> By clicking "Add Successor" below, I acknowledge that I am the owner of the @ttmc account, and am authorizing GitHub to transfer content within that account to my GitHub Successor, designated below, in the event of my death. I understand that..."
In the future children will argue over who inherits their parent's Hacker News karma. To avoid legal complications be sure to specify in your will which favorite child inherits your Hacker News legacy.
It's important to note the difference between our online personas, such as HN accounts, and our online self-appointed responsibilities, such as our Github accounts.
I understand the reasoning for a clear path of succession of the latter. I do not believe that the former should carry on after our deaths. Our personas should die with us.
I got reached out multiple times and got hired twice based on my public repos and contributions. While I’d like to enable this option for privacy purposes, seems that the only way I’d use this if my employer requires me to do so.
GitHub was just as bad before Microsoft bought them; a proprietary software as a service vendor using venture capital funding to provide a loss leader that lured people away from running and using open source infrastructure.
Enabling this will hide your contributions and activity from your GitHub profile and from social features like followers, stars, feeds, leaderboards and releases.
Include private contributions on my profile
Your contribution graph, achievements, and activity overview will show your private contributions without revealing any repository or organization information. Read more.
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It's always been available, although tricky: click "report abuse" on your account, write something, and voila - you have a working account, invisible to others: they see your profile and activity page as 404.
Readit News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31115642 ("GitHub: Private Profiles beta", April 2022, 125 comments)
> By clicking "Add Successor" below, I acknowledge that I am the owner of the @ttmc account, and am authorizing GitHub to transfer content within that account to my GitHub Successor, designated below, in the event of my death. I understand that..."
https://github.com/settings/admin
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-05-11-account-successors/
I understand the reasoning for a clear path of succession of the latter. I do not believe that the former should carry on after our deaths. Our personas should die with us.
Haven't tried it yet, though.
Dead Comment
https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
https://github.com/settings/profile
``` Contributions & Activity
Make profile private and hide activity
Enabling this will hide your contributions and activity from your GitHub profile and from social features like followers, stars, feeds, leaderboards and releases.
Include private contributions on my profile
Your contribution graph, achievements, and activity overview will show your private contributions without revealing any repository or organization information. Read more. ```