I logged into GitHub today and found something new I hadn't seen before:
What is this, and why did it begin to appear?
GitHub – What Does the ‘Pro’ Tag on My Profile Mean?
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It's been removed from all profiles. It must have happened around September 2013.
It doesn't look like it's coming back.
However, if you look at your profile and then view the source of the page you will see in the description meta tag that it is still there.
<meta name="description" content="pinkpanther has 58 repositories written in
Scala, Ruby, and SoftGlove. Follow their code on GitHub." />
You can, starting from May 9th, 2014.
Just click on "Edit Gist", there will be an option to change it private or public near delete button on the left of "delete gist" menu.
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PRO tag refers to https://github.com/pro
GitHub today (07.01.2019) announced that it is changing the name of the GitHub Developer suite to GitHub Pro. The company says it’s doing so in order to "help developers better identify the tools they need".
In other words, all Pro (and Edu) users have that PRO tag.
Honorable mention: Historically GitHub always offered free accounts but the caveat was that your code had to be public. To get private repositories, you had to pay. Starting tomorrow, that limitation is gone. Free GitHub users now get unlimited private projects with up to three collaborators. The amount of collaborators is really the only limitation here and there’s no change to how the service handles public repositories, which can still have unlimited collaborators.
Some say, this may or may not be the result of Microsoft's closed acquisition of GitHub last October, with former Xamarin CEO Nat Friedman taking over as the CEO of GitHub. Some developers were rather nervous about the acquisition (though it feels like most have come to terms with it). It’s also a fair guess to assume that GitHub’s model for monetizing the service is a bit different from Microsoft’s. Microsoft doesn’t need to try to get money from small teams - that’s not where the bulk of its revenue comes from. Instead, the company is mostly interested in getting large enterprises to use the service.