The record said private files would be made public. The record was corrected.
The Open Science Framework stops taking new projects on November 16, 2026, and goes read-only on February 19, 2027. That part is true and widely reported.
The part that drifted: an early Nature story said OSF's private projects would be made public. They will not be. Nature corrected it on September 10. Private projects are 63 percent of the total, more than 650,000, per Center for Open Science director Brian Nosek, and are expected to be removed eventually with 12 months' notice promised.
What survives: existing public projects stay findable and downloadable. Preregistrations and the preprint servers keep running. COS has 450,000 dollars committed to a continuity fund for public content.
Receipts: cos.io/osf-changes; the COS blog for August 11 and August 14; Nature d41586-026-02598-y and its September 10 correction.
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