This will hurt for some, note this is GitLab not GitHub

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/04/gitlab_data_retention_policy/

Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year.

This (not relying on a remote cloud provider) is why I have my own instance of Gitea for keeping a backup mirror of my Github projects, although not the main reason I use it