My assumption is that the "my private repo was included" crowd are misremembering that their repo used to be public at some point in the distant past (~years).

My assumption is that the "my private repo was included" crowd are misremembering that their repo used to be public at some point in the distant past (~years). My suggestion would be that they re-scan before each major revision of the dataset (such as this upcoming "v2" release). This would be a relatively expensive process given the numbers involved, but so be it. (edit: I think "v2" is already released, but you get my point)