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GitHub may have been blocked in parts of China
- tobyhinloopen 8y agoThere are plenty of Chinese repos on there. Sucks to have your code hosting platform banned.
- schappim 8y agoWhat alternative platforms do Chinese developers use?
- guessmyname 8y agoI use Coding [1] but Gitee [2] is also popular. [1] https://coding.net/ https://coding.net/ [2] https://gitee.com/ https://gitee.com/
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- gunn 8y agoWow, gitee's UI looks familiar: https://gitee.com/assets/homepage/screenshots/repo_index.png https://gitee.com/assets/homepage/screenshots/repo_index.png
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- vSanjo 8y agoA sad day for OSS indeed. A lot of great Chinese developers have helped me over the years.
- jj2ay0 8y agoI have exactly the opposite experience. As a Go developer, I'm used to seeing Chinese developers and users speaking Chinese in the issue tracker showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.
- aaomidi 8y ago> showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world. What the fuck? They're not showing "respect" because they don't speak English?
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- yg6ht5 8y agoYes, English is the "universal" language, whether we like it or not, and speaking in another language in a public place (such as a github issue tracker) is disrespectful, because it's like gatekeeping information and knowledge.
- silasdavis 8y agoHmm. No.
- aaomidi 8y agoNo it's not. This is imperialist thinking. There is no universal language. If you want to understand what they're saying hire a translator or use an online service. They're not using some obscure language only a few people understand. Get out with your western centric thinking.
- yorwba 8y agoI think you could have made your point without resorting to personal attacks.
- shanghaiclique 8y agoHi, I'm in Shanghai and can reach Github fine, and there are no engineers speaking about github being blocked within China.
- barry-cotter 8y agoAlso, in Shanghai, also works fine without VPN. The GFW can vary by province. I remember HN being blocked in Shenzhen but not Shanghai six years ago.
- rqs 8y agoThere are a website called https://www.17ce.com/ https://www.17ce.com/, it's a speed test service, but their server mainly located in China (Of course, it's a Chinese website), so it can be used to test status of some GFW blocks. That website tells me GitHub is fine, and that's all, I guess. This is the speed test result for Google.com https://imgur.com/eOoxthu https://imgur.com/eOoxthu This is the result for GitHub.com https://imgur.com/T9o0U79 https://imgur.com/T9o0U79 (Red == Delay was very bad)
- OskarS 8y agoIf they’re blocking using DNS, maybe GitHub is still in cache for you?
- shanghaiclique 8y agoI thought that also, but no, I can access it on my computer and my phone, so I think it's just an overreaction on OP's part.
- Double_a_92 8y agoThis has been occasionally happening since 2013. Most of the times it's just temporary.
- cmaureir 8y agoMaybe is the response to the 996 movement. https://996.icu/#/en_US https://996.icu/#/en_US
- westiseast 8y agoYeah was going to say this might be relevant https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/f5et2r4-IePUTv8AvElpsQ https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/f5et2r4-IePUTv8AvElpsQ
- federicoponzi 8y agoInteresting link, thanks for sharing. It seems like the github repo of that site is being flooded with issues: https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues Not sure if they are fake users or not
- _hardwaregeek 8y agoOn one hand this sucks, on the other hand, this is the precise audience that knows how to set up a VPN.
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- plibither8 8y agoPretty disappointing. China has blocked GitHub multiple times in the past [1], each time unblocking it due to backlash and criticism. Hopefully they unblock it again soon. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China
- forkLding 8y agoDon't most Chinese devs in China use VPN to access Github anyways?
- jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 8y agoUsing a VPN usually slows down your connection quite a bit if it's located outside the GFW, so most devs in China probably aren't using a VPN to access GitHub (myself included).
- parsadotsh 8y agoI'm in China and it seems to be working fine.
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- toinetoine 8y agoIt's working fine in Shenzhen. I cleared cache and still able to use it fine.
- jtokoph 8y agoThe linked site shows it as up. Was probably a temporary connectivity issue. Other tests show a response time of 10+ seconds, so this site could have just timed out.
- etaerc 8y agoI have a friend in China who's trying to learn software development by himself. It's ridiculously hard compared to the west. It shouldn't be underestimated how Wikipedia, Stackoverflow and Github can increase your learning speed.
- jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 8y agoSounds strange. Programming resources usually aren't blocked here - even when they're on Wikipedia. StackOverflow isn't blocked, and GitHub hasn't been blocked either. E: Excluding Google search I've only encountered one blocked programming resource when sporadically programming on my spare time here: golang.org - which I'm guessing is because it's on hosted on Google's servers.
- aaomidi 8y agoDoes China block specific parts of wikipedia then? How do they know what part of wikipedia you're visiting?
- jjjjjjjjjjjjjjj 8y agoChinese Wikipedia is blocked. I thought parts of English Wikipedia was blocked somehow as well, but seems like that's outdated information (after they started enforcing https in June 2015[0]). You'll find a list of the blocking methods on the Great Firewall wiki article[1]. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia#China [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall#Blocking_methods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Firewall#Blocking_method...
- etaerc 8y agoYeah but how do you search for stuff there if google doesn't work? I.e. you try to learn "udp hole punching" how do you get the relevant wikipedia, stackoverflow etc pages?
- yorwba 8y ago
- limw 8y agono vpn,it's working fine in GuangZhou.
- bg24 8y agoBut why? I can understand blocking Google, FB etc. and that's well discussed. Why block GitHub?
- mehrdadn 8y agoSee the 996 thing in another comment.
- asaka 8y agoLooks fine in Beijing.
- throwaway2019Z 8y agoYour own link says otherwise. How are people upvoting this?
- dlahoda 8y agoVery good news. For alternative open source git providers. And for p2p git versions. One on zeronet and one on ipfs. Wait, git is p2p itself in its core? So p2p issue boards with search may be OK.
- gerryxiao 8y agoFine in Hubei now.
- jingzhi 8y agoi am in WuHan, it has been blocked.