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Developers making mods and plugins for hentai games and sex toys say Github recently unleashed a wave of suspensions and bans against their repositories, and the platform hasn’t explained why.
Developers I spoke to said the community estimated around 80 to 90 repositories containing the work of 40 to 50 people went down recently, with many becoming inaccessible around late November and early December. Many of the affected accounts are part of the modding community for games made by the now-defunct Japanese video game studio Illusion, which made popular games with varying degrees of erotic content. One of the accounts Github banned contained the work of more than 30 contributors in more than 40 repositories, according to members of the modding community that I spoke to.
Github didn’t tell most suspended users what terms they broke to earn a suspension or ban, and developers told me they have no idea why their accounts went down without notice. They said they thought they were within Github’s acceptable use guidelines; even though they make mods for hentai games and things like interactive vibrator plugins, they took care to not host anything explicit directly in their repositories.
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If Github just kills repos without explanation, then using Github for anything is a mistake.
The moment Microsoft bought it people should have started coding somewhere else. It’s just like everything Microsoft buys, it gets the Microsoft touch, survives for a bit, they make something to replace it and it’s gone forever.
https://giveupgithub.org/
I remember when Microsoft first bought GitHub there was a pretty huge push to get off of it and onto gitlab.
Is there a reason gitlab isn’t recommended anymore?
This! Codeberg, Forjego, Gitea, or bust at this point.
I’m OOTL. Why don’t people recommend GitLab?
GitLab is proprietary, despite being source-available. Forjego, Codeberg (based upon Forjego), Gitea and a couple others are all Free Software.
Forgejo is a fork of gitea, because gitea was heading to the GitLab model
genuinely. it’s been 8 years, ya’ll have only yourselves to blame.
I’ve stumbled upon plenty of projects that migrated to alternative platforms. If anything, this may just further accelerate the process.
Problem is when looking for a job. 3/4 of what I have been applying for asks for a github link to your projects and won’t accept something that doesn’t match ‘github.com’.
They say jump, and we ask how high.
Like good little bitches.
You can still have mirrors of your stuff on GitHub and push there, just have your primary forge be a different place.
My answer to those is always “i code for money, I don’t code in my free time”
Let me preface with the fact that I know nothing about Git or GitHub. Could you just have one “project” and have the readme be links to your Codeberg/Forgejo/GitTea projects?
Most big open-source projects have a GitHub mirror with a link to the real project.
Yes that can be done.
And now you know why Microsoft bought it. Nothing better than a captive user base.
Is this for real? That’s incredibly stupid.
Can confirm, both true and stupid.
The question however is: where should one move then? I’m genuinely asking since moving away from Github is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while now but didn’t have the time to search for alternatives.
The only one I know about is Codeberg, which could work for most but not all of my projects (for now at least). Anyone here knows other tried and tested platforms worth looking into? Preferably free as I’m not in a position to pay for this stuff at the moment.
I’ve seen many FOSS projects use gitlab. You can even self-host it. Also, from https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/ linked in another comment:
- Alternative Hosting Services: Codeberg SourceHut - Self-Host (or join a group that self-hosts). A few options: Forgejo GitLab Community Edition (note, the GitLab Enterprise Edition, which is provided to the public on gitlab.com, is (like GitHub) trade-secret, proprietary, vendor-lock-in software) SourceHutDidn’t know about SourceHut though it would have to wait until I find a job. GitLab on the other hand could work. I’ll keep those in mind at least, thanks!