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Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by jacquesm »

mako254 wrote: post #189
jacquesm wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can see these on a daily basis by now. Just the other day, major Youtube channel blocked, Gsuite accounts suspended without warning (after a decade of forking over cash) and so on. The only warning you will ever need is this one: Don't trust the cloud, don't trust cloud providers and make sure your mission critical path is only tied to things that you can control or that you have a 'hot' spare standing by for. Ot…

You are absolutely right - you can't just handover a kill switch for your business to a megacorp. However, there are a lot of instances where alternatives are not viable because of the same megacorps. For example, email is a major online ID and being locked out of it can be disastrous even for an individual. Ideally, you would want an email server of your own - but then the 2 major email providers simply junk the mai…

That's a good point, especially about the email. I hope that I will be able to ride this one out until my pension date arrives and I no longer have to worry about that. The internet started with the best of intentions but it is rapidly turning into something far worse than AOL: at least with AOL you had the option to ignore it.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by mcv »

gojomo wrote: post #126

Had a similar thing happen to me with Github a while back (pre-Microsoft acquisition). Even as a paying customer for many years, my account was disabled – without even receiving an email warning. I only discovered when browsing issue histories where I knew I'd left detailed comments, and noticing my comments gone without even a note about deletion, leaving threads nonsensically fragmented. When I tried to login, I wa…

For a paid account this is utterly unacceptable. For a free account I can kinda understand it, although it'd still be nice to get some automated explanation. An automated system that can't provide a good reason to disable an account, shouldn't be disabling accounts at all.

If this is a thing that happens at Github, I guess that's another reason to check out Gitlab instead.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by fareesh »

simonkafan wrote: post #68

In 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.

This is a good law and should be applied to big tech.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by sreevisakh »

mytailorisrich wrote: post #140

Outsourcing source control/repositories for software dev. is a suicidal idea and it has always puzzled me that so many devs jumped onto the Github (and friends) bandwagon.

Where else do you host where you can easily attract potential contributors, sponsors and recruiters? Self hosting is not a solution since everyone would have to maintain separate accounts on all those instances. The discoverability is also poor. Git's decentralization is a wasted opportunity if discoverability and participation aren't equally decentralized.

On a related note, I like sourcehut's design. I am not completely familiar with it, but I don't think you need an account at all to contribute.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by sidhanthp »

The same thing happened to my Mom's Facebook account.

She's a realtor that used Facebook extensively to stay in contact with her clients, as well as advertise for new business.

One day, the account disappeared for malicious activity.

PS: if anyone sees this and can help, shoot me a DM on Twitter :)

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by korethr »

parliament32 wrote: post #159
R0b0t1 wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your ISP could refuse service. This has happened. If you manage to start an ISP people could refuse to peer.

If you run your own AS you can buy bandwidth from literally any carrier, they famously don't give a triangular shit about what you do.

Yes, but be honest, how many people can easily get their own AS? The barriers to getting an AS number are by design higher than the barriers to getting hosting with a random provider. If I can prove I have hundreds of hosts I want to connect to the Internet, I can probably successfully get an AS number and get in line for a slice IPv4 space when one becomes available. Joe Random probably can't.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by mcv »

Yanu-3452 wrote: post #16
zomglings wrote: post #13

It 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.

The fact that Github is not sharing their side of the story is the very thing that people are complaining about.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by zrail »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #188
shash7 wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Problem is that there are so many services that integrate with github directly that moving to other alternatives will also require moving/replacing those 3rd party services.

Is it possible to self host the code, but then automate syncing backups to public Github. That way you can use 3rd party integrations, and be part of the Github ecosystem 99% of the time, but when they do something like this, you have an emergency place to work from?

I believe Gitea has two way syncing built in.

Re: Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice

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Post by [deleted] »

zomglings wrote: post #13

It 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?

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