Did the whole pairdrop repo just vanish
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It's sort of sad that small developers cannot get any help unless they go viral on social media.
But I also understand that any large platform must use automation to handle spam.
They do not. Certainly not the kind of automation that shadowbans accounts of long-term users without any kind of manual review. Stop making excuses for this kind of shit.
Why hire an army of humans to investigate and deal with spam when you can just auto-ban anyone your shitty algorithm says is suspect? And the only way they can get any recourse is to make a shitstorm on social media.
Welcome to the future.
Law is always evolving and this is one of these cases. One of the human rights is the right to a hearing. If the world is able to force corporate to give the right to a hearing to their customers, many of these problems will probably go away.
It's cheap for corporate not to provide a hearing but potentially disastrous for affected customers.
But rebuilding on another host is not the hard part. Rebuilding the community (and issue tracking etc.) is much harder. Especially since github pretty much dominates that aspect.
Please keep backups of all your data, source code included.
If your company fails because {{online service}} lost all your data it is your fault not theirs.
No. It is your fault because it is expected and preventable but that shouldn't let the online service provider get off the hook. It's their fault too.
Please keep backups of your data, your backup does not need to be full git history etc... Even just a zip export of the current state every now and then although just a full dump of the repo is small enough for most repos.
> Nope. It's outrageous but 20 days after creating the ticket, support has yet to answer it. I'll definitely move ship next week.
Doesn't surprise me one bit. GitHub's support was pretty much non-existent even long before Microsoft's acquisition. My memory may be a bit foggy, but about a decade ago the only way I was able to resolve my issue was by literally interviewing someone from GitHub for an article and mentioning my issue to the person I was interviewing.