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GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

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Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#31

Post by k8svet »

remram wrote: post #26
Macha wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gitea have moved the product from a community governed product to an open core one and handed over the gitea.com domain to a hosted services vendor

My question was: what did Forgejo do? If the software is still developed in Gitea's repository, and all Forgejo does is download the source from gitea.com, rename it, and post it on forgejo.org... how does that help the users? If there exists some Gitea features that are not available open source ("open core")... how does having Forgejo help? Unless they provide those features, the situation remains unchanged. Until…

Luckily Forgejo has a blog with a days-old blog post that spells this out. The winds are clearly blowing in Forgejo's direction despite some doubt from me, early on.

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#33

Post by Nullabillity »

k8svet wrote: post #31
remram wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My question was: what did Forgejo do? If the software is still developed in Gitea's repository, and all Forgejo does is download the source from gitea.com, rename it, and post it on forgejo.org... how does that help the users? If there exists some Gitea features that are not available open source ("open core")... how does having Forgejo help? Unless they provide those features, the situation remains unchanged. Until…

Luckily Forgejo has a blog with a days-old blog post that spells this out. The winds are clearly blowing in Forgejo's direction despite some doubt from me, early on.

The "we're becoming a hard fork"[0] blog post says that they are hard-forking and what the consequences of that will be, but says nothing about why.

[0]: https://forgejo.org/2024-02-forking-forward/

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#35

Post by unixfox »

MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #32
siamese_puff wrote: post #22

Update: After HN post, GitHub emailed me instantly telling me their algorithm mistakenly banned me and they can’t tell me why or which organizations were affected.

They can tell you, but they don't have to.

They can't tell it because that would make the life easier to spammers.

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#36

Post by cimnine »

remram wrote: post #28
jjmarr wrote: post #11

Now is a great time to switch to Gerrit.

As far as I'm concerned, the first platform to get federated merge requests will win it all.

Have a look at GitLab's plans then: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/activity_...

Edit: Better link

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#37

Post by realusername »

ravetcofx wrote: post #20
YaBa wrote: post #10

Use locally installed Gitea. I only use Github for public forks and nothing else. Personal projects are all on private Gitea.

Why did Gitea seem to win out in the self-hosted space over GitLab?

Because it runs on the lowest vps you can imagine, GitLab is way overkill for personal projects.

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#38

Post by herbst »

sshine wrote: post #9

I've used GitHub for years knowing that Microsoft owning it, they're headed for a place I won't like. I just haven't experienced that until now. I've been trying out sr.ht and codeberg.org. Sadly the product is nowhere near GitHub.

I just installed gitea and never looked back. Lightweight, does all I need and full control. Microsoft killing the place was very foreseeable

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#39

Post by herbst »

siamese_puff wrote: post #22

Update: After HN post, GitHub emailed me instantly telling me their algorithm mistakenly banned me and they can’t tell me why or which organizations were affected.

Did you ask them when they plan to ban you again and how you should proceed then?

Re: GitHub bans organizations without warning or explanation

#40

Post by amerkhalid »

unixfox wrote: post #35
MathMonkeyMan wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They can tell you, but they don't have to.

They can't tell it because that would make the life easier to spammers.

Not an excuse to not explain what happened. If they want to maintain trust, they should give some explanation.
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