Creating a Snap fork on Github

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(sorry for asking this, I'm really am a newbie when it comes to GitHub)

I'm trying to fork (again, I did it 10 years ago and it worked) Snap! but when I do I get this message

What is a "destination" in Github? If I click the bottom link, I go to my old fork. Any suggestion? Thanks in advance.

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AFAIK your only allowed to have one fork per upstream project

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So, normally, if you have a previous fork - you re-sync it instead

4

Thanks for remembering me this. I had another project I was working several years ago on and, to have more than one fork, I had to create different accounts on github. I don't understand why this is necessary.

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Be careful with that, because github has in their terms of use that you can't have free alt accounts. I have had an alt account, and both my alt and my main account got banned. I had to delete my alt account to get my main account unbanned.

You should instead create organizations instead, because those are kind of like accounts, but not.

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Is it like this even now? In my github menu I can find "add account" and "switch account".

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Well the terms say

Meaning you can have multiple accounts, but you are supposed to pay for them.

Just to be clear, I have been banned before for creating a second account, so I don't want anyone else to go through the same problem.

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I understand. But I'm not paying for any account.

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I know that GitLab has no such limitation. You could try to create a new repo, then select import -> url, then type in the new URL. after that, name it, and you're off!

(Or, just use git clone on your local computer and not use an online provider.)

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You may not have more than one free account.

Microsoft being Microsoft.