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Developer Moves Repos from GitHub to Codeberg After Silent Spam Flag
A developer's GitHub account was silently flagged as spam on June 18, causing all public repos to return 404 for two weeks. The issue was only discovered when an AI agent followed a source link and got a 404. After a support ticket took two weeks to get a human response, the developer moved all repos to Codeberg and deleted the GitHub account.
Meridian48 take
The story highlights a critical blind spot in GitHub's moderation: silent flags that break public access without notifying the account owner, undermining trust for developers who rely on public code hosting.
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