Does GitHub allow you to create multiple (2) personal accounts?

Question

There is nothing in the GitHub guidelines, as far as I can see, that prevents people from making multiple personal accounts. I would like to create a "more serious" account and move my serious projects there, and keep the trash on a side-account.

The problem is that I used to have two accounts a few years ago, and GitHub actually banned both accounts due to that. They told me that "you are only allowed to have 1 account". I had to petition their support to reopen my main account. But it seems like they've changed their stance now, because I can't find any wording that prevents multiple accounts anymore.

I am Googling for the term multiple accounts site:help.github.com and the pages that come up seem to indicate that it's allowed these days.

For example, https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-user-account/merging-multiple-user-accounts says "We recommend using only one user account to manage both personal and professional repositories", which sounds like they accept multiple accounts too.

Does anyone know? Perhaps some of you have multiple accounts successfully!

Answer 1

I found the actual answer in the Terms of Service:

https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service

"One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine)."

So that's why they banned me all those years ago. You're only allowed to have 1 account if you aren't a paying user.

But I will accept @emix answer, since he was the first to suggest the smart solution of making an Organization for my serious projects!

Answer 2

You can create New organisations linked to your main personal account.

Answer 3

It would be better to create an Organization instead and keep your important projects there. It's always much easier to have a single account in terms on maintainability.

For instance: in BitBucket you cannot have your single public key attached to two different accounts.