I see the fork feature useful since for example if you fork a project that is no longer maintained user can search in the forks and find that you are now mainta

I see the fork feature useful since for example if you fork a project that is no longer maintained user can search in the forks and find that you are now maintaining it. I've found myself doing it a lot of times. Regarding forking a private repository with a public repository, it's a corner case for sure. In my opinion it's best to forbid forks of private repositories at all, and forbid to make a repository that has forks private, than to create problems like the one of the user in this topic.