Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why
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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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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.
Archive: http://archive.today/eNOI1
If Github just kills repos without explanation, then using Github for anything is a mistake.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
A preferred solution is available now.
there are non-profit FOSS hosting sites such as Codeberg, who develop their platform publicly as FOSS.
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A preferred solution is available now.
there are non-profit FOSS hosting sites such as Codeberg, who develop their platform publicly as FOSS.
Gotcha, thought it might be the license and the fact gitlab is proprietary. Thanks for elaborating further on that.
Heard a lot about codeberg and forgejo on Lemmy but not a lot outside of here. Liking what I see so far
