<story><title>Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice</title><text>Hello friends,&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a Full Stack Developer from India. I&amp;#x27;m a maintainer at Gatsby, Open Sauced and Triager at ExpressJS, Nest.land, JSHttp etc. I use GitHub a lot, but recently my account got suspended midnight without any notice, From my knowledge I haven&amp;#x27;t spammed GitHub, I review 3 - 6 PRs in Gatsby per day, It&amp;#x27;s been a week without GitHub, I have three sponsors in GitHub, they are asking me tons of questions and one of my sponsor stopped sponsoring me (my payout balance got reduced). All of my office work got stopped, I&amp;#x27;m the admin of the org that is used in our company. All employees now don&amp;#x27;t have access to the repo because it is returning 404. I got support from lot of people in Twitter but GitHub is not responding to my ticket for a week. I also created a petition is change.org &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.change.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspended-for-no-reason&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.change.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspen...&lt;/a&gt; some people supported me over there too. It would be great if GitHub unsuspends me.&lt;p&gt;My support ticket number: 763327&lt;p&gt;GitHub Profile: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Save Open source developers!&lt;p&gt;Hope Nat Friedman and GitHub will see this!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zomglings</author><text>It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket.&lt;p&gt;To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I&amp;#x27;m sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake.&lt;p&gt;To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI&amp;#x2F;CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hamcha</author><text>If you truly wish to avoid this kind of problems you should think about hosting your own platform rather than jumping to the next one. Just because the smaller players haven&amp;#x27;t done anything bad doesn&amp;#x27;t mean they wouldn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;Gitea&amp;#x2F;Gitlab are crazy easy to set-up nowadays, especially with a fully working CI&amp;#x2F;CD setup (I use Gitea+Drone and I love it, Gitlab comes with its own)</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: My GitHub account got suspended without any notice</title><text>Hello friends,&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m a Full Stack Developer from India. I&amp;#x27;m a maintainer at Gatsby, Open Sauced and Triager at ExpressJS, Nest.land, JSHttp etc. I use GitHub a lot, but recently my account got suspended midnight without any notice, From my knowledge I haven&amp;#x27;t spammed GitHub, I review 3 - 6 PRs in Gatsby per day, It&amp;#x27;s been a week without GitHub, I have three sponsors in GitHub, they are asking me tons of questions and one of my sponsor stopped sponsoring me (my payout balance got reduced). All of my office work got stopped, I&amp;#x27;m the admin of the org that is used in our company. All employees now don&amp;#x27;t have access to the repo because it is returning 404. I got support from lot of people in Twitter but GitHub is not responding to my ticket for a week. I also created a petition is change.org &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.change.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspended-for-no-reason&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.change.org&amp;#x2F;p&amp;#x2F;github-inc-my-github-account-suspen...&lt;/a&gt; some people supported me over there too. It would be great if GitHub unsuspends me.&lt;p&gt;My support ticket number: 763327&lt;p&gt;GitHub Profile: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;yg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Save Open source developers!&lt;p&gt;Hope Nat Friedman and GitHub will see this!</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>zomglings</author><text>It is ridiculous that GitHub has not even responded to your support ticket.&lt;p&gt;To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform, and I&amp;#x27;m sure the same is true for other people reading this post. Your reputation is very much at stake.&lt;p&gt;To anyone reading this from Gitlab, how easy is it to migrate CI&amp;#x2F;CD off of GitHub Actions to Gitlab?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>finnthehuman</author><text>&amp;gt;To anyone reading from GitHub, this is making me rethink my choice of GitHub as a platform&lt;p&gt;You should reconsider it no matter what; you&amp;#x27;re putting your business in someone else&amp;#x27;s hands and relying on their goodwill not to completely fuck you over.&lt;p&gt;Using Github can be a tolerable risk when your company has hundreds of more-likely reasons to fail in the next month and needs every little bit of saved time it can get.  But once the business has it&amp;#x27;s feet under itself, the github contract of adhesion is a pretty stupid risk to take.</text></comment>