Yeah, I’m not sure what this article is even trying to say; this has been happening for a while now.

Like, it’s shitty, but it’s not even the shittiest thing Github has done. I’m more annoyed about the whole AI stuff, the fact that they have de-facto veto powers on most open source projects and that they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life.

Modern times are really “people should get off of X platform but don’t because people don’t want to move”.

they don’t let you have multiple accounts to separate your professional life from your cringe life

Can you post more on this? I found this article that seems to recommend you only use one account, but doesn’t seem to suggest that they enforce it. I have like 8 GitHub accounts with a cringe/professional mix, so hopefully that’s not something I need to fix. (Ironically I usually stay logged out anyway)

docs.github.com/en/…/github-terms-of-service#3-ac…

Here, I’m afraid. Third bullet. Whether or not they enforce it is another matter.

Sucks because I kinda might want to contribute some things to projects that I don’t want people to know professionally.

Or maybe I can just make my profile private and hope nobody goes looking too hard.

Ruh roh. Yeah I’m involved with several projects that I’d rather not trace back to my other identities, and I make a new GitHub account per job. Even if they start enforcing it I imagine it’s quite hard for them to actually figure out what’s all connected without amping up their identification schemes with mandatory phone numbers and etc. I guess we’ll burn that bridge when we get to it.

Oh, they do.

I didn’t clear my cookies/use a vpn to sign up for multiple accounts.

All registered accounts, including my main one, were locked. All secondary ones were shadowbanned. I had to message support to get restrictions on my main removed.

Did they actually unlock your account?

All the horror stories I’ve read about this sort of thing usually end in “I tried to contact support/submit an appeal but they told me to take a hike”.