Negatives of repo being marked as a fork

[Venryx]

Just wanted to mention that there are some negatives to having your repo marked as a fork, if you plan to have it up for the long-term:

1. You can't use the search function (an annoyance I've hit with other forks that "became the main" before)
2. I believe it also deprioritizes the repo in search results.

So it may be worth deleting and recreating the repo as a "source" repository, before too many people star/watch/fork it.

[dmurvihill]

Thanks, noted. Let's try and do that after the name dispute is complete as we won't properly be the main until then.

[Venryx]

I found out that apparently you can ask GitHub support to disconnect a forked repo from the source repo: https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/why-are-my-contributions-not-showing-up-on-my-profile#commit-was-made-in-a-fork

Certainly better than deleting and recreating. :)