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How often are you not signed in to GitHub? You’re presenting this as a practical pain, but I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t signed in to GitHub.
by cqqxo4zV46cp 3y ago
How often are you not signed in to GitHub? You’re presenting this as a practical pain, but I can’t remember the last time I wasn’t signed in to GitHub.
- andreareina 3y agoI don't have a work GitHub account and I keep personal stuff out of my work computer. The number of times I've wanted to search an open source codebase without cloning it yet is significantly nonzero. I've also wanted to do code search on my phone, where I have no need to be logged in so I'm not.
- jhgg 3y agoSo register a throwaway for work and your phone. Seems easily solvable in a few seconds!
- dasyatidprime 3y agoSeems like a good time to mention that (despite anecdotal lack of enforcement) GitHub's terms of service continue to officially forbid having more than one free account for manual use. https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-t...
- dingensundso 3y agoThat rule sucks. I want to keep work and personal separated.
- Kuinox 3y agoWork account should be pro and paid by the company then.
- mjw1007 3y agoIf I'm considering reporting a bug I came across in a free-software project while at work, that's already something I probably couldn't justify with a strict cost-benefit calculation for my employer. In practice my employer would be happy for me to spend my time doing it anyway, because it's the right thing to do. But asking them to pay Github for the privilege is pushing it.
- abhinavk 3y agoCan they let their business customers know that? Companies making their employees create new accounts for their org is not uncommon. I’m not talking about Enterprise instances.
- al_borland 3y agoMy account through work uses SSO. I didn’t make my account, it authenticates through AD. If I leave the company, I lose access to the account. Telling employees to make their own personal account to do company work seems like a bad idea.
- midchildan 3y agoI don't want to login to github.com when I'm on my work computer. That's going to take me one step closer to uploading company internal stuff by accident.
- lurker616 3y agoIt's especially bad because I don't really remember my passwords, so I always have to reset password when logging in again, and that refreshes the dev keys so my terminal git push also stops works - a complete PITA.
- noman-land 3y agoThis is nuts, dude! Get a password manager or something.
- pquki4 3y agoWhich could happen to every other website has nothing to do with GitHub.
- sneak 3y agoI have my cookies autodeleted on a regular basis because I prefer my browsing sessions and activity to not be linked for surveillance purposes. The use of a password manager makes re-logging-in effortless.
- Nab443 3y agoI have a specific firefox container group for github and a few other applications so that it's not leaking cookies. No need to relogin.
- sneak 3y agoGitHub still knows all of your individual visits to GitHub, and which repos you viewed. Most of the time I don’t want to be browsing GitHub itself whilst logged in. I don’t like or trust Microsoft with my location or waking hours or browsing history.