Crazy price! 😵

This made me chuckle.

Open source projects should leave X. It isn't easy in many cases, but I hope maintainers will push proposals to their teams when the time is right. @e18e.dev and @npmx.dev are only here, and both projects are thriving.

I was mid-way through watching it as video, missing the cool widgets. Thanks, very nice and I definitely need to use the Intl api's more, I do a lot of manual formatting of dates and that is a nightmare of edge cases.

I have been doing work in my account with no issues since, but still feel like I'm walking on egg shells while doing so.
Anyway, thanks to everybody. 👍

"Our spam-detecting system usually does a great job but unfortunately, as you've experienced, there are occasionally false positives. Rest assured however, that we have taken steps to ensure this will be less likely to happen to your account again."

Further update. Many days after the last suspension and reinstatement, finally got a further reply and explanation.

I put the reply in the next post. This is better than nothing, although I'm not yet aware yet what really happened (spam filter? I only interact with my own repos).

Thats the only comm I got, after the first suspension lift. That only gives me the entire T&S and Use Policy to worry about as a potential cause. 😄😵

"After review, we've removed the restrictions from your account, so things should be back to normal the next time you sign in.

That said, we'd ask that you take a moment to review our Terms of Service and GitHub Acceptable Use policy to ensure your usage remains in compliance going forward."

I am now honestly scared to touch anything.
Just making sure i have backups of all repos locally and on Tangled for now.
My intention is to continue using Github for all it provides me, yet at the moment its kind of scary.

However, when it is not the case, and the suspension was in mistake or a false positive, receiving absolutely no communication from Github at either the suspension or the clearing of it is pretty poor, as it leaves us without a post-mortem or knowing what the cause was, in order to avoid that thing.

Scott, some feedback around this issue.
To you, personally, 10/10 rating for caring, and helping out, nothing but gratitude here.
For Github support, faired poorly here. I understand outright blocking abusers accounts with not much ceremony is probably the right thing to do these days.

I’m taking this repo down and praying

I was last I checked. Sorry just coming back home now, had a dinner with friends. Just checked, it’s back once again. Ty very much

It was for almost a day. Then suspended again

@scott.hanselman.com if you can nudge them one more time, please, and give me the root cause of these flags so I can eliminate it - happy to take this repo down from github at this point. But also, this seems to be happening to other people as well, so it seems even more valuable to learn why.

I am not experienced with publishing packages, but the published code can be seen here, to check nothing there is malicious: npmx.dev/package/tche...
I can't link to the actual repo because again, my account is blocked. Maybe its not related to this repo at all, but again I dont know the reason.

The only work done today was to replace eslint/prettier with the oxc equivalents, and remove that jsr ci action, then opened pull request.
I hope we can pinpoint what is the cause here, so that no only I can avoid it, but others can also learn and be aware from this.

This is also the only repo I have that is a published npm package - its a fetch wrapper that adds things like retries and typed responses etc.
It also has a jsr CI action that I copied over from their docs but never got to work.

Well, the joy was short lived.
Account is flagged again.

It seems like whatever is causing the flag might be related to my repo `tchef`, because that is the only thing I worked on today, and I had not touched this repo in a long time, and I did when the first flag happened and now again.

Couldn't agree more.
AI couldn't have fixed this one (in fact I suspect it caused it).
Only *good* humans could.

Me too! Ty so much @scott.hanselman.com and @flensrocker.de for the linkup.
This has done wonders for my mental state just before we get a lovely 4 day extended weekend here in the UK! :)

Still never found out what happened, but happy to have the account back to work.

Exact same experience here. Glad we at least got our accounts back even without knowing what this was. I'm mirroring on Tangled.

The Last Quiet Thing Your possessions came alive. Now they won't stop talking.

I found this truly wonderful piece of writing thanks to @whitep4nth3r.com's Weird Wide Web Hole newsletter (which I highly recommend 'cos it's interesting and fun and friendly and just a nice thing to find in your inbox once a week), and by gosh this hits hard...

www.terrygodier.com/the-last-qui...

Update: I still have received no communication on my ticket or otherwise, but just tried to login again, and it seems the account is back!

Yeah do that for sure.

@flensrocker.de tyvm. Fingers crossed!

If you read this so far, thank you, and if you have any advice for me, or know anybody that could help or guide me in navigating this, please get in touch, or share this post.
Thank you.

Was I hacked, did someone do something terrible in my name? I don't know, and that's almost the worse part, I wasn't given any information, and received no other signals or communications from anywhere that would signal to me that this had happened.

Every few weeks or so, you get one block, but not like that. And I hadn't even made a post or anything, and I've stayed away from the politics for a good while now. This can just be unrelated coincidence, but now in my mental state I'm paranoid and wondering if things are related.