Here is the message where he found out what happened:

I didn’t receive any information about it but when creating a support ticket I was told my account has been flagged and I had to do some extra verification. I’ve created a support ticket now and will keep you posted. I’ll believe it’s nothing major though, I use 2FA everywhere, the last commit on all repos is what I expect, and all sessions and usages look fine

Absolutely fuck Github and Microslop, they can just vanish your projects without notice whenever they want with barely any justification for it, and then take their sweet time to fix it too.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    9 hours ago

    What is it going to take to push FLOSS software out of GitHub? Everyone here can move their projects literally anywhere else today. I did it for my own (roughly 10 projects) five years ago and it only took about an hour:

    1. Create an account with Codeberg, GitLab, or whatever you like.
    2. Use their built-in tools to copy your repo over to your new account. In GitLab’s case, this will even migrate over some of the additional features, like issues.
    3. Update the places where you publish the project: PyPI, npm, whatever, with the new project home URL.
    4. Archive the old project on GitHub, with a pointing link to the new project home.
    5. (Optional) announce the above in any of the social spaces where people care about your project.
    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
      10·
      7 hours ago

      The problem is that everyone already had a GitHub account and creating an account on 10 different forges just for reporting issues is annoying. GitHub was comfortable.

      Forgejo is actively working on federation for this and I think it’s super important. Create account somewhere, send issues, comments and PRs to projects on other instances.

      • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
        3·
        7 hours ago

        That’s a worthy goal, but the problem isn’t so insurmountable that we have to wait for some theoretical new feature to be available and adopted. There are three dominant players out there, one of which has demonstrated a willingness to screw everyone and the “it’s not perfect yet” excuse is getting pretty thin.

        Switch to Codeberg today and there’s a good chance that this federated login will be supported there when/if it’s ever available. GitLab could do it too, and moving there will give you a bunch of nice things you don’t even get in GitHub let alone Codeberg.

        But it’s long passed time to move. Microsoft has stolen our code to feed into their slop machine and enshittified the platform. Sticking around because a perfect alternative isn’t available only serves to harden the network effect that keeps GitHub dominant.

        • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden
          2·
          4 hours ago

          Agree with Codeberg. I wouldn’t recommend Gitlab, nothing stopping them from becoming the next GitHub if they get enough people.

          • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            It’s true. They’re for-profit, so the motivations are still there. Fragmentation helps a lot though. If a third of us move to one, and another third to the other, that would cripple any party’s ability to enshittify.

  • Slashme@lemmy.world
    20·
    13 hours ago

    That’s the cool thing about git. You can just create a blank codeberg repo and then do:

    git remote add codeberg <URL>
git push codeberg --mirror

    Of course, this won’t include issues and other GitHub specific stuff, but it’s much more robust than most other tools.

    If Linus had only ever created git, he’d still have his place high up in the programmer’s pantheon.

  • vort3@lemmy.ml
    31·
    4 hours ago

    Idk what is “kitchenowl”, but yesterday I had a situation where I need to create a github issue (well, I needed a software developer know about something, and the software is only hosted on github).

    I created a new github account, created an issue, logged out and saw that my issue isn’t there. Turns out my account was flagged. I tried to reach support, but github asks to enable 2FA for this. Added an authenticator.

    Turns out, you still can’t reach github support until you add and verify a phone number via SMS. No way I’m giving away my phone number to microsoft.

    So, it’s not possible to reach the support, there is no email address, and I can’t create issues. What a joke. I wish people in FOSS community stopped using github.

    In the end, I just found the dev’s email address and sent them an email.