Maybe it's being taken down because GitHub is not happy about serving as a free CDN for a non-source code repository?
In general this is why you shouldn't depend on 3rd parties like this. Though hopefully in this case it's mostly a brief mistake?
I see adblockers as another casualty of the end of the ZIRP era. Big Tech was benevolent when the money was free, but now that they have to tighten the waistband all the nice open-sourced add-ons (like 3rd party readers, ad-blockers, etc.) are all getting killed off (or at least they're trying to)
The repo is accessible now.
We really need at least a duopoly in the git space. Nothing against github per se but they've got way too much of the mindshare.
For those that haven't bothered clicking the link, they add:
> Github was struggling with "malware" comment spam lately and we added several filter rules that block this stuff. Maybe this is what triggered disabling the repo?
The comments so far immediately jumping to conspiracy speculation is depressing.
It's already back up.
And its because of situations like this, that I push to multiple foundries at the same time. Consolidation of resources is makes it only as secure as your control of maintaining them.
pure speculation but i bet it’s somehow because it contains links to copyrighted/illegal content (to block it) lmao
Adblock is ethically equivalent to theft. This is a good thing, as far as I'm concerned (even if it wasn't deliberate).
The issue is resolved now, the repo is available again.
We have not received any response to the support case that we opened, but we assume that it was a false positive of some automatic algorithm.
As a consequence of this we're going to set up a mirror outside Github so that the work didn't stop if something like that happens again.
UPD: We received the official response explaining that this was a mistake. I must admit the whole situation was resolved really quickly, good job.