In the aftermath of Github banning or suspending dozens of popular accounts, the erotic game modding community wonders if they should move to platforms like GitGoon instead.

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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  • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
    174·
    2 days ago

    This is just TOS enforcement, they updated their TOS in October. From the article:

    Github updated its acceptable use policies in October 2025 to forbid “sexually themed or suggestive content that serves little or no purpose other than to solicit an erotic or shocking response, particularly where that content is amplified by its placement in profiles or other social contexts.” This include pornographic content and “graphic depictions of sexual acts including photographs, video, animation, drawings, computer-generated images, or text-based content,” according to the terms.

    • Tony Bark@pawb.socialOPEnglish
      172·
      2 days ago

      So they suspended users without telling them about the fairly recent TOS update? That’s just scummy behaviour.

      • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        153·
        2 days ago

        I’m quite sure said users clicked right past a notification of the updated TOS, just like we all do, without even skimming it.

        • Hetare King@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

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          • Agrivar@lemmy.worldEnglish
            95·
            2 days ago

            Not relevant. You asserted that the users weren’t told about the changes, when we both know they most certainly ignored some notification of said changes, be it via a popup or an email or whatever. How much fun the TOS is to read and parse has nothing to do with this.