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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Cassie Heart
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We had an auto upgrade script that checked the repo and pulled the latest for updates. We weren't aware this was a violation, as there were many other repos existing for years without issue. That being said, we also have had over 200,000 nodes, so we might just be more popular than those.
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Cassie Heart
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Suffering from success, but the "following reports" line gives us pause this may have been a malicious report. There have been many times that the ticket had an updated time, but with no visible info. We replied to their message, and at this point, contacted their sales team to see if Premium support could expedite.
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Cassie Heart
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Three days later, we finally get another response, refusing to budge on this, and not being willing to reinstate the repo. The next day, I got a message from the sales rep to schedule a call.
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Cassie Heart
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Taking the call with the sales rep was very revelatory. This representative, who I will not name because I don't believe they deserve to be fired for telling the truth, said that there was a chance premium support would potentially get this unstuck, but it would cost "several tens of thousands of dollars a year".
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Cassie Heart
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They additionally revealed two other bizarre things going on with the state of GitHub: 1. Copilot is absolutely destroying their resources for non-enterprise customers, and they've been stretched too far to properly provide regular git services for non-enterprise users, causing several outages.
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Cassie Heart
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2. Management of support has told them in order to alleviate budget and time allocation, to stonewall anyone asking to have a repo restored after automated triggers disabled it. Further, reinstantiating the repo on a different name will subsequently also issue a full account ban.
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Cassie Heart
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Armed with this knowledge, we pushed harder against support yesterday, offering them two choices: 1. acknowledge this was a simple mistake and with no communication provided, they put themselves and us into a serious bind and specifically caused us significant harm, and restore the repo so we can resolve this.
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