Cassie Heart
@cassie
It has been a full week now since GitHub disabled our public repository for Quilibrium. Here's what we know. 1. After pushing through multiple connections to escalate the case, we finally received a support response after the first 48 hours:
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Emp
@empathicalchemy
So what's your take? Do you think it was a violation, or was it just an increasing of genuine activity pushing you over the bandwidth limit?
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
Their terms are unfortunately vague, so ultimately it's a violation if they say it is, but incredibly likely that our popularity could have triggered whatever internal trigger they had. That being said, this immediately followed after a hosting provider did a banwave (they forbid crypto, so it's their right) /2
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Cassie Heart
@cassie
and sent an angry unhinged letter to those users. I suspect they likely sent one to GH too to punish us for actions we had no control over. Nevertheless, their stated policy is if there are violations, they will also notify in advance, which they didn't do, despite this being the state of the repo for months. 2/2
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Emp
@empathicalchemy
sucks when your success and rise in popularity ends up causing harm. Definitely sounds like had you not been crypto related then the increase in traffic might not have been flagged as a violation. My take is that Github is falling behind the curve and needs to rethink its policies on Crypto.
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