Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for Using GitHub

Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by Goz3rr on Thursday February 23, 2023 @05:19AM (#34908804)

The rules specifically namedrop Github:

> Template engine websites, tools, and sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit, are NOT permitted.

With Jekyll being there, I can only assume the intention was to mention GitHub Pages as an example, but as it is the rules clearly say using GitHub is NOT permitted. They could've questioned this discrepancy before the competition while reading the rules before starting, and at the very least just not mention using GitHub.

On top of that, until yesterday they actually (accidentally) ran Jekyll during CI as well because it is hosted on GitHub pages: https://github.com/thstsa/spacetourism/commit/27834acf978a7d...

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by richbell on Thursday February 23, 2023 @06:28AM (#34909182)

> On top of that, until yesterday they actually (accidentally) ran Jekyll during CI as well because it is hosted on GitHub pages: ...

That's just the commit where they added `.nojekyll` at Reddit's suggestion. (Unless I'm not seeing something on mobile.)

More context + the offending run is here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/117rw3d/was_just_di...

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by mcv on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:24AM (#34909538)

But they used github just for git. If they hadn't mentioned github, nobody could have known. Or cared.

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by unyttigfjelltol on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:30AM (#34909588)

I'm not a web design professional, but they appear to have used it 3 ways-- 1) hosting and URL; 2) GitHub logo/branding on the footer and 3) back office collaboration tool.

I suspect it was uses #1 and #2 that generated the confusion, and while I am sympathetic to their feelings about the competition and DQ, I too might have been confused about whether they leveraged a "Wix-like" function to generate the page.

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by pulse7 on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:32AM (#34909602)

So using GitLab for the exact same thing would be OK?

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by mcv on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:55AM (#34909849)

I would expect so, yes.

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by rovr138 on Friday February 24, 2023 @02:16PM (#34928674)

>sites that generate HTML from text, markdown, or script files, such as Webs, Wix, Weebly, GitHub, Jekyll, and Replit, are NOT permitted

Technically GitLab also generates html from markdown.

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Re:Disqualified from a National Web Design Competition for U... by Goz3rr on Thursday February 23, 2023 @07:44AM (#34909715)

To you and me it seems obvious, but to someone less familiar the rules clearly say using Github is prohibited, even if it is for the wrong reasons. At that point you should either get clarification of the rules, or take the risk and end up in the situation OP is in now.

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