GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
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Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#2From being on the other side of this kind of "big company screws little guy for no reason"...
In ~80% of cases, there is more to the story than meets the eye. For example maybe a legal complaint came in, or someone was DoS attacking that repo and it put the whole GitHub service at risk.
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#3From being on the other side of this kind of "big company screws little guy for no reason"... In ~80% of cases, there is more to the story than meets the eye. For example maybe a legal complaint came in, or someone was DoS attacking that repo and it put the whole GitHub service at risk.
and so you don't send an email?
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#4Huh? It's a game. On Steam.[1] It's not a copy of anything; it's quite original. Has good reviews.
[1] https://store.steampowered.com/app/595690/One_Hour_One_Life/
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#5From being on the other side of this kind of "big company screws little guy for no reason"... In ~80% of cases, there is more to the story than meets the eye. For example maybe a legal complaint came in, or someone was DoS attacking that repo and it put the whole GitHub service at risk.
That's why online services will never really be a complete alternative to using your own hardware. They might not get their computers stolen or catch fire, but they destroy your data intentionally when they decide they don't like you. The failure modes are different but still present.
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#6That is terrible and a good reminder that using the "cloud" means that you don't really control your destiny. A quick googling around reveal a couple of options for backing up everything from github (but I'm not sure what you'd do with a backup if you got kicked out like the OP).
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#7From being on the other side of this kind of "big company screws little guy for no reason"... In ~80% of cases, there is more to the story than meets the eye. For example maybe a legal complaint came in, or someone was DoS attacking that repo and it put the whole GitHub service at risk.
There's always two sides to a story. That being said, it seems like every other week now there's a story of a cloud service or provider shutting something down or removing something, without our with very little notice, and the only recourse for somebody who cannot afford an army of lawyers is calling them out on Twitter and hoping for the best.
This is an alarming trend, and highlights how decentralization and, at the same time, more accountability for this sort of action from these providers is necessary (through regulation?). Sadly it seems like at least the EU is currently walking in the opposite direction, which favors large corporations and the content industry :(
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#8The only lesson to be learned here, one that needs to be repeated time and time again:
Don't put all your eggs into one basket.
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#9I don't understand, doesn't he have the repo locally?
Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work
#10We need to hear 2 sides of a story. Github does not just 'delete' files. Author should contact them first and resolve any issues there is. And if github refuse that, than you can cry a river.