Great, so apparently my Github account has been flagged, without them ever notifying me of this, and now I cannot do my work, which earns me income. Amazing
Love tech companies
I guess all my own projects are on my own Gitea, at least...
Known (significant) collateral damage so far:
- My Matrix spec contributions, including at least one MSC that I wrote
- My NixOS contributions, including some fairly important contributions to RFCs
- Any work done for $customer that lives on Github
No response from Github yet. This is uh, maybe not a great way to deal with flagged accounts?
This also seems like a pretty strong argument to *not* do any sort of spec work on Github, because apparently they will just disappear it with no recourse
Like, to be clear, the 'collateral damage' here is that all of those things - any issues or PRs I've created anywhere, any comments I've left on other people's issues or PRs - are just *gone*. No indication. As if they've never existed.
This means that historical parts of multiple standards processes have just... disappeared. For no good reason. With no recourse for the standards organizations involved.
I have just learned that Github's data export is, *at the very least*, missing Gists and all of my contributions to repositories that *aren't* mine. The only thing included is the data for my own repositories. What the hell.
I've posted an updated summary of the situation, as its own post: https://social.pixie.town/@joepie91/110733995438668688
@joepie91 This should be a warning to all communities that tie their identity specifically & only to a proprietary service they do not control.