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Ask HN: GitHub thinks I'm a bot; what about my projects?
Github thinks that I'm a bot as they stated in big, red letters:
> One of our mostly harmless robots seems to think you are not a human.
> Because of that, it’s hidden your profile from the public. If you really are human, please contact support to have your profile reinstated. We promise we won’t require DNA proof of your humanity.
I get that, but then I open any of my projects in Incognito mode and they are all returning 404. Try it:
- Drive DB https://github.com/franciscop/drive-db 234 stars
- I Am Not A Lawyer https://github.com/franciscop/ianal 74 stars
Those two, for example, are listed in NPM. I have other projects listed in Bower. Fortunately I don't have anything in my personal account on jsdelivr, but I could. Does anyone know what happens to the NPM, Bower and jsdelivr when this happens?
I am waiting for resolution after contacting Github, but it can take any random number of hours from past experiences. This could happen to anyone. On the good side, the public "organization" repositories seem to be doing just fine:
- Picnic CSS http://github.com/picnicss/picnic 836 stars
- detaro 11y agoBoth repos linked are visible to me.
- franciscop 11y agoYes, I just got an answer. They were really fast answering, so +1 for them for that. I still wonder what happened to my projects in the meantime
- detaro 11y agoYou should ask them, especially if package managers rely on it that's an interesting issue.
- franciscop 11y agoI did, I will keep a single thread for the responses. I won't be copy/pasting their side of the messages (as I'm unsure whether it's even legal), but I can paste my side.
- franciscop 11y agoGithub just fixed it; However I don't know how long they were down. I asked them about this: ------- Dear Ben, Thank you so much for a prompt response. Might I ask what happened and why I was flagged as a bot? I have to find out what happened to my projects on NPM, bower and jsdelivr since Github was returning a 404 for those projects for an unknown amount of time. While on your end it's a flag, it might affect a bigger pipeline and cascade into more trouble. Is any step being taken to avoid this? How often is it done? So your statement "everything should be back to normal" might not hold true for the reasons explained above and in my question on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916349 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10916349 Thank you, Francisco Presencia -------
- franciscop 11y agoTo "What happens with the repository?" [1] NPM says: - Nothing happens [1] https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/1757 https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/1757
- Mz 11y agoProbably, the most important thing you should do is find out what you did that made them think you were a not and do not do it again. BlogSpot thought I was a bot when I moved multiple WordPress blogs over to BlogSpot over the course of a few weeks. Manually copying and pasting 50 or more old posts per day seemed to be the issue.