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

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Post by eropple »

sheogorath wrote: post #18

I'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…

This is unhelpful. In a practical way, if you want to participate in open-source you very often must use GitHub. It is also unhelpful because it conflates what GitHub is legally allowed to do with what they should do. "They gave consent" is a poor basis for bad behavior and it cannot be normalized with a sniff and a "well, read the TOS".

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

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Post by opqpo »

All big tech companies have a liberal thought police right now. Reddit for example was a place of freedom until 4 years ago and now it's a "1984 as a service". Facebook doesn't even let you express anything except for sharing cute cat videos or ultra liberal views.

I wonder if you posted anything that did upset their Gestapo knowingly or unknowingly because it doesn't matter. Maybe you used a variable than contained the word "blacklist"?

Maybe it was a mistake, maybe you did something wrong. But maybe you've been neutralized by the silicon valley thought police.

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

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Post by blocked_again »

the_svd_doctor wrote: post #22
smoothgrammer wrote: post #17

Always do a periodic full off-site cold backup of all your GitHub repos. It's very easy to script and should compress down very small.

Is there an easy way to do that ? Some script available somewhere ?

You can write a simple GitHub action that pushes your repo to GitLab/BitBucket etc every 30 minutes or something.

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

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Post by marcinzm »

mobilio wrote: post #23
marcinzm wrote: post #10

That's pretty bad, something for startups to keep in mind if they plan to use Github for their company I guess.

Most of startups knows that if they need to succeed it must be self-hosted somewhere. I'm not talking just for sources and repos. About servers too.

In my experience, most small startups, especially successful ones, rely on SaaS for as much as possible. The goal is to do as little as possible themselves.

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

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Post by MattGaiser »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #28
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?

This seems to be a common problem around the tech industry as a whole. What would it really cost them to have even just half a dozen decent people running around doing support. I am sure they will be busy very quick too but it will help to maintain GitHub as a community focused site that aims to keep you productive after all git is a productivity enhancement utility.

The problem is that you wouldn't need a dozen but rather 100+. Support doesn't scale well.

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

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Post by quadrifoliate »

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?

I have also bookmarked this, and will be sharing it with the few Open Source projects I contribute to as evidence that we should stop using GitHub for crucial work. It's a sad thing since I think they have a more intuitive platform than GitLab or Bitbucket, but seem to be transitioning to a full-blown enterprise obsessed Microsoft division.

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

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Post by ceejayoz »

opqpo wrote: post #32

All big tech companies have a liberal thought police right now. Reddit for example was a place of freedom until 4 years ago and now it's a "1984 as a service". Facebook doesn't even let you express anything except for sharing cute cat videos or ultra liberal views. I wonder if you posted anything that did upset their Gestapo knowingly or unknowingly because it doesn't matter. Maybe you used a variable than contained…

> Facebook doesn't even let you express anything except for ... ultra liberal views.

This is absurdly counter-factual.

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

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Post by k12sosse »

sheogorath wrote: post #18

I'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

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

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Post by marcinzm »

sheogorath wrote: post #18

I'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…

Your right to do something does not remove my right to complain about what you did publicly.
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