HACKER Q&A
📣 tempplusplus

I am banned from GitHub and need to apply for jobs, what now?


I have no idea why I got the ban, but I got banned and with that I lost a venue to display my code to potential employers.

Also contacted support about it, but no response so far...

The thing is I need to apply for jobs now. So it won't help my case as an entry level applicant stating that I know some C, C++, Python and JavaScript w/o any proof.

I don't know, I can offer my employer to send my works as ZIP files, but this might be akin to shooting myself in the foot. Why? B/c I got the impression that you are expected to show your projects using GitHub. I wish the phrase "nobody cares about your sh*tty GitHub" would hold true, but I had employers looking over my past projects.

When you are dependent on a platform, and you get barred from that platform, you pretty much loose an opportunity to improve your life - like finding a job.

But these kinds of denials of services seem to happen to people in other instances too (Gmail/Google). At least I saw that somewhere on HN...

Anyway, what now?


  👤 Clewza313 Accepted Answer ✓
Create a new Github account with a new email and showcase your work there?

👤 LinuxBender
This might be too involved, but you could self host Gitea [1] on your own domain, push all your repos to it, then you have full control of your own git repo on your domain. It won't have all the same workflow tools that Github has, so I am not sure if this is helpful to you.

[1] - https://gitea.io/


👤 zoobab
I removed my Linkedin account the day Microsoft bought them.

Github is next.


👤 jjgreen
GitLab