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Kitchenowl creator has been flagged without warning making all of their repositories return 404, while in their settings all of the repositories still look normal with public visibility. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 weeks ago by iByteABit@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 37 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago

This sounds very familiar.

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 weeks 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 13 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks 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.

[-] def@aussie.zone 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

GitHub lets you use them as an oauth provider. Issue solved.

Instance fragmentation is annoying in the sense while you can unify log in with oauth you can’t share settings between instances of the same software. Would be cool if oauth could have a generic user_data field to store json of settings maybe…

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 weeks ago

for anyone reading this, Codeberg/Forgejo can migrate issues too! use the "new migration" function in the menu where you create new repositories, and tick the box for copying issues and wiki. it is a one time copy only, though, so if you are dedicated you should restrict issues on the github repo to collaborators only, so that people can't open new issues (which won't be able to be synced anymore), but old ones are still readable in their original form.

syncing issues cannot be done later, it's for new repos only

[-] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I didn't know this was available in Codeberg! Thanks for sharing.

[-] Slashme@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[-] comrademiao@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago

Reason 9999 to self host and back up

[-] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 9 points 2 weeks ago

More like 89.91... they dream of four nines.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 2 weeks ago

Microslop doing microslop things....

[-] VoodooAardvark@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

GH “fixed it” and it 404s now too ¯\(ツ)/¯

[-] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

You got a link on this, something I can share with regular peeps?

[-] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Only what you can find from the project's Matrix chat, everything else is inaccessible now

Edit: I also see he has posted on Mastodon

[-] rangber@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Regular peeps"

[-] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

~~That's the only information available, it's not a well enough known project to have articles and stuff about it so you'll have to do with this if you want to learn more~~ just found a Mastodon post about it too

[-] rangber@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's fine. I was just being a jerk.

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

are you sure that is a good link?

[-] magikmw@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

So I only learned about kitchenowl with this thread unfortunately, and since both the repo and github pages hosting the site are down, I have no idea where to follow the creator to get any updates concerning either the repository or the application itself. i.e where did that message come from?

Any leads would be appreciated.

[-] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Check my comment here

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Is the docker repo unaffected?

[-] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think so, but I haven't updated my hosted version to check

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