Your change.org petition says 08/07/2020 which hasn't happened yet. Not in the USA at least :)
You should probably change that to 07/08/2020 if you're targeting American audiences.
Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
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Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#102In Austria there is a law in place saying if a company has a monopoly (e.g. public transport) or a quasi-monopoly (e.g. only supermarket in a 100 miles radius) the company is required to serve any customer and is not allowed to turn any down. It is time that all countries introduce laws that prohibit online monopolies from denying access to their users without good reasons.
Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but I don't think GitHub has a monopoly. Git was created to be decentralized, so every developer has a "backup" of sorts on their own machine.
If GitHub is truely hostile to you, taking your business elsewhere (or hosting it yourself) shouldn't be too much of a roadblock for people with sponsors like OP.
Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
It should at worst scale linearly with user-count and hence, at least in the asymptotic limit, revenue.
> It should at worst scale linearly with user-count No, front-line support staff might scale that way, but organizational costs scale superlinearly with the size of the bottom of the pyramid, so even if it did, total cost would be super linear with userbase.
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#104Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#105I'm sorry to break it to you. But that's basically want you agreed to by accepting their terms of service: "GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time." https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-te…
In other words.. he just got doctor disrespect'd
Nobody still knows what happened to him yet.
Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#106Hi Yogi, I'm guessing your Github account has been hijacked. Support won't respond to your emails because it could be the attacker impersonating you, or he could still have access to your email and get info that way. This is Standard Operating Procedure I've seen applied on stolen accounts in MMO videogames involving stolen credit cards and organized crime. Sometimes wait time was 6 months with no contact, because th…
If GitHub really has reason to suspect that op's account is hijacked, they should be able to figure out at least one of op's email address (simply by the fact that email address is attached to the account long before the hijacking happened), and send some communications there? Or provide an official process of "we suspended your account because we have reason to suspect that your account is hijacked. we won't response to your emails either, this is how to contact us to have your account reinstated"?
Also op said they do have 2fa, which makes this excuse even poorer.
Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#107It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket. To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I'm sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake. To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI/CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?
> To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI/CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?
We have example templates for most common languages and frameworks: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/examples/.
You can read here for all the supported ways you can create pipelines and define the CI jobs: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/
A TL;DR is that all you need is a base docker image and a list of commands to run. Jobs will run in parallel for each stage, or you can define dependency between then, so they run as an independent DAG.
(You can easily import all your projects with a few clicks: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/import/github.html#i... and we get everything from issues, merge requests, to labels milestones, comments, etc.)
Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#108It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket. To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I'm sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake. To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI/CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?
Careful about leaping to conclusions, we're hearing one side of a story here.
"We're hearing one side of the story" seems to be functioning as a thought-terminating cliche here. Everyone knows we're only hearing one side of the story. The comment you're responding to is asking Github to join the conversation, and noting that the information we have so far looks bad for Github. Nobody is suggesting that Github be summarily executed.
Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can write a simple GitHub action that pushes your repo to GitLab/BitBucket etc every 30 minutes or something.
Do you know an example of this?
Here's one I found on the Actions marketplace.
Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice
#110HN is NOT a support channel for Github, Apple, Microsoft, Paypal, Google and a 100 other services out there that have piss-poor customer support. If the only way to get a rise out of these companies is to abuse HN then that should be indication enough whether or not you should route a critical part of your business through them.