GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

#1

Post by sexy_seedbox » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 6:59 AM UTC

Re: GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China

#2

Post by tobyhinloopen » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:12 AM UTC

There are plenty of Chinese repos on there. Sucks to have your code hosting platform banned.

#3

Post by schappim » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:12 AM UTC

What alternative platforms do Chinese developers use?

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Post by vSanjo » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:13 AM UTC

A sad day for OSS indeed. A lot of great Chinese developers have helped me over the years.

#5

Post by shanghaiclique » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

Hi, I'm in Shanghai and can reach Github fine, and there are no engineers speaking about github being blocked within China.

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Post by Double_a_92 » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:17 AM UTC

This has been occasionally happening since 2013. Most of the times it's just temporary.

#7

Post by cmaureir » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

Maybe is the response to the 996 movement. https://996.icu/#/en_US

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Post by _hardwaregeek » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

On one hand this sucks, on the other hand, this is the precise audience that knows how to set up a VPN.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:18 AM UTC

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#10

Post by guessmyname » Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 7:19 AM UTC

schappim wrote: post #3

What alternative platforms do Chinese developers use?

I use Coding [1] but Gitee [2] is also popular.