Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended

Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by ada1981 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:17AM (#16544795)

If you still are interested in solving the badge problem, you could also register the domain pypip.in again and redirect the URLs to the other service you found.(looks like it's available)

Maybe the other service would do it if you emailed them?

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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by movermeyer on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:30AM (#16544898)

That's a neat idea. Looks like someone beat me to it though: https://www.namecheap.com/domains/whois/results.aspx?domain=...

I've reached out to them to try and see whether they want help.

[UPDATE: they're benevolent and I'll be working with them on this. Cheers]

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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by sitkack on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:41AM (#16544976)

If they are benevolent, and not going to serve spam or malware over those badges.

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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by amenod on Thursday March 08, 2018 @03:07PM (#16547221)

Well, if they are not benevolent, at least there will be a strong motivation to finally solve those broken badges then. ;)

I must say this made my day... It's one of those occurences when one uses many many many hours for a project that in the end could be solvable by a small amount of money ($10) and a few e-mails. Must admit I didn't think of it either when I was reading the blog post. :)

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Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a... by ada1981 on Thursday March 08, 2018 @08:40PM (#16549258)

Nice! Curious to see how this works out.

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