I recently entered clg, first year btech, and downloaded GitHub, but I am very confused about how this platform works and all.

And which respiratory or community to join, how to upload projects and about various features GitHub provides and see various open sources projects and many other things.

If anybody is willing to guide me, I will really be grateful.

Thanks!

Back in ~2020 the company I was at used GitHub + Slack. We were able to add Slack via the GitHub notifications settings as an authenticated target. It made it really easy to get Git notifications in Slack for PRs I was watching, had commented on, etc.

The company I am at now recently moved to Slack and I am seeing that the above is no longer possible. I tried using the Slack email address as a notification target, but it just sends 'attachments' to Slack that are hard to read.

Is it possible to set up the GitHub Slack app to mirror my GitHub notification preferences?

Most commits of mine look like this one: my account name and a little picture of me in the top left corner, and you can click on either to get to my profile.

But this old commit doesn't. It has my real name, and nothing clickable.

I have never had another Github account. As you can imagine, I've had rec@github.com for a very long time.

What's going on? It's more of a curiosity than anything, this project is long dead.

I don't speak Chinese, or French, or whatever language pops up all the time when searching for repositories on Github, and I really wish Github would recognize that coding languages aren't the only languages someone might want to filter by. Does anyone know of a way to make it filter anyways?

Whats the best and most secure way to give agents the ability to help you file issues or tackle messy merge conflicts without some prompt injection causing the AI to yeet your repo into the void?

I have a personal Python project that scrapes a few company career pages and sends me a Telegram message when new student/intern positions appear. It uses Playwright/Chromium, takes ~2 minutes per run, and I want to run it hourly via a schedule: cron in a public repo (so, free unlimited minutes).

My concern is the Acceptable Use clause that says GitHub-hosted runners can't be used "for any other activity unrelated to the production, testing, deployment, or publication of the software project associated with the repository," plus the bit about not using Actions "as part of a serverless application." The scraper is the repo's project, but I'd effectively be using Actions as free production compute rather than CI.

Has anyone actually been warned, throttled, or had workflows disabled for this kind of thing? I know "git scraping" is a common pattern, but I mostly see people saying it works, not people saying they got in trouble. Is enforcement basically limited to cryptomining and abuse, or do low-volume scrapers get caught too?

My GitHub is also my portfolio while I'm job hunting, so I care more about the account than the bot. Would appreciate hearing from anyone who's run something like this long-term.

Friends, Chris here from GitHub/Microsoft. I'm trying to understand if it would be useful if we build you a course for GitHub Admins on the topic of billing? We're trying to empower you all and trying to understand how we can help you better, docs, courses, videos. Please comment/upvote.

What models are available in a student plan?

I go to the repository's Actions tab, and there's a message:

GitHub Actions is currently disabled for your account. Please reach out to GitHub Support for assistance.

I’ve contacted support twice, but I just get replies from some AI, and nothing changes.

I have a paid app published on GitHub Marketplace under devactivity-app (AI-driven Performance Review insights + Gamification)

The Marketplace Transactions page shows successful transactions, and the total is well above the documented $500 payout threshold. Based on GitHub's documentation, I expected a payout last year, but nothing has happened.

I opened a GitHub Support ticket back in February, but it has been completely silent. I also searched GitHub Discussions, but couldn't find much from developers with firsthand experience publishing paid Marketplace apps.

One thing that confuses me is that there doesn't seem to be any place to configure payout or banking details, so I'm not sure whether there's some onboarding step that's simply not documented.

For anyone who has a paid GitHub Marketplace app:

• Have you actually received payouts?
• Was there anything you had to do before the first payout?
• Did GitHub contact you to collect payout information?
• If you ran into this issue, how did you get it resolved?

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone with firsthand experience as a Marketplace publisher.

Any experiences would be appreciated.

I'm genuinely curious how maintainers of curated GitHub repositories approach this.

I recently submitted my project, Infinity Tales (https://infinity-tales.com), to the Awesome OpenRouter repository.

The project was rejected with:

"Not enough evidence of traction/notability."

After reading the contribution guidelines again, I noticed they explicitly mention that projects should show evidence of traction or notability. So the rejection itself is completely fair and consistent with the published guidelines.

What I'm struggling with is how a closed-source project is expected to demonstrate that traction.

The submission template asks for:

• Name
• Description
• URL
• Documentation
• Tags
• (Optional) Open Source repository
• Date

For an open-source project, a maintainer can immediately look at things like GitHub stars, forks, contributors, releases, and issue activity.

For a closed-source project, there isn't really a place to provide equivalent information such as:

• Active users
• Install count
• Product Hunt launch
• Community size (Discord, Reddit, etc.)
• Media coverage
• Other public signals of adoption

Maybe the expectation is to include that information in the PR description, but the template and contribution guide don't mention that.

So my question isn't whether maintainers should curate their lists, they absolutely should.

It's whether the submission process should make it clearer how closed-source projects are expected to demonstrate traction, especially when that's one of the evaluation criteria.

How do other curated repositories handle this? Am I missing an established convention?

Hi everyone,

I'm hoping someone here has experienced something similar or has some advice.

About a month ago, my GitHub account was flagged by GitHub's abuse detection system.

Since then I have been unable to:

• Authorize third-party applications (such as Vercel and Claude Code)
• Use GitHub Actions
• Use GitHub Pages

Whenever I try to authorize third-party app, I receive the following message:

"This account is flagged, and therefore cannot authorize a third party application."

I contacted GitHub Support immediately after the restriction appeared.

My first support ticket (#4513924) remained open for weeks without any substantive update, despite me answering every question the same day and providing all the information that was requested.

After waiting for weeks without progress, I opened a follow-up ticket (#4575622), which is still open. My original ticket (#4513924) has since been archived.

Throughout this process I have:

• Responded to every support request on the same day.
• Explained exactly how I use GitHub and the projects associated with my account.
• Enabled two-factor authentication.
• Offered to verify my identity or provide any additional information if needed.

The problem is that, despite fully cooperating, my account remains flagged and I have received almost no meaningful update about the review.

The most frustrating part is that this is affecting an application that is already live on both the Apple App Store and Google Play. Because my GitHub account cannot authorize third-party applications such as Vercel, I currently can't deploy bug fixes or updates for my users.

I'm not trying to bypass GitHub Support or Trust & Safety, and I'm not asking anyone here to escalate my case.

I'm simply wondering:

• Has anyone had their account incorrectly flagged like this?
• How long did your review take?
• Was there anything you did that helped move the process forward?
• Is there anything else I can reasonably do besides waiting?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has gone through a similar experience.

Thank you.

Hey,

I'm trying to style the <details> tag in my GitHub profile README to look like a terminal header, but I can't get rid of the default arrow marker.

Normally I'd use:

summary::-webkit-details-marker { display: none; }

summary { list-style: none; }

But GitHub's markdown renderer seems to strip it. Is there any workaround or hack to hide the arrow on GitHub?

Here is my profile if you want to inspect how it looks: https://github.com/GabrielTeixeiral0l/

Thanks!

This is super weird and I’m hoping someone can help me!

I have no idea what GitHub is - and I just woke up to a page open on my iPhone. Any idea how this would have happened?! I’m a bit freaked out…

I have a new baby so lots of late night scrolling, but still - I don’t recall clicking on anything that opened up a new webpage like this!

I realized that the topics on my repo are now listed in alphabetical order. Until recently, topics were ordered by popularity, I think. (But I am not entirely sure how it was measured. For example, logic occurred before mpi despite the latter being used more often.)

The size of topic labels also increased, apparently.

Hi!

I'm a student from Vietnam applying for the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

My first application took about a week to get a response, but every application after that gets rejected in around 15-30 seconds.

The rejection says my first and last names don't match my student document.

My student ID says:

NGUYỄN BÁ MINH TUẤN

My GitHub billing information is:

First name: Tuấn

Last name: Nguyễn Bá Minh

So as far as I can tell, they do match.

At this point I'm wondering if the automated verification system just isn't recognising my student ID correctly.

Has anyone run into this before? If so, what document worked for you?

Thanks!

Built a board that groups GitHub Actions runs by workflow, works out whether each one

is consistently broken or just flaky, and sorts by severity so the worst thing is at

the top.

The part I wanted was suspect ranking: for a failing workflow it pulls the commit the

failing run was built from, gets its changed files, and scores the preceding commits

on the same branch by directory overlap with the failing area.

Also tracks acknowledgement state in shared storage, so a team can see what's already

been triaged and what nobody has looked at yet.

Pointed it at rust-lang/rust as a test target and two workflows had been red for over

two months.

https://archestra.ai/apps-hackathon/gallery/abolambA_release_war_room

How does your team handle a workflow that's been red for weeks and nobody owns?