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Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by jehna1 on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:00PM (#36726642)
Polar asks you to grant "act on your behalf" permissions to your Github. As someone who has both professional and open source projects at Github, that's a definite deal breaker
Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by birk on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:21PM (#36726995)
Unfortunately, this is the default by GitHub and their OAuth prompt and nothing we can change. See https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/37117

Most of our API integration is purely about synchronising repositories, issues & PRs (read-only). With the exception of 2 things. 1) Inject the Polar badge. We then edit the issue body to append it at the bottom. 2) You can explicitly post a comment as yourself via Polar when you badge an issue, but this is entirely optional and merely a convenience feature would you want to. Requires manual & clear action.

Re:Polar v1.0: Let’s Fix Open Source Funding by senden9 on Saturday July 15, 2023 @12:19AM (#36733415)
I did come here to post the same reaction. I saw the OAuth prompt with "act on your behalf" and intermediately closed the browser tab. When I want to take a look at something new I do not want ti give it what looks like nearly full access on my account.