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skydhash • yesterday at 10:23 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

> The recent changes sound like the banning process has been expanded to cover a lot of new things that it didn't before

This is the actual part of the TOS

  Please be aware that this list is neither exhaustive nor complete (illustrating the spirit of the law, not its letter). Be aware that any account can get suspended at any time if it is used for activities harming Codeberg e.V. or its associated platform and services, directly or indirectly, even if these activities are not explicitly listed in the examples above.
So anything goes. The actual list contains stuff that are going to get you expulsed for sure. But there’s nothing that guarantees your ability to host for a certain period of time.

So your best bets is to keep backups of your data soemwhere else. Which you should always be doing.

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saghm • yesterday at 11:42 PM

> So your best bets is to keep backups of your data soemwhere else. Which you should always be doing.

Generally backing up a git repo is easy; it's all of the other stuff that tends to get hosted together with the code (issue tracking, pull requests, releases, potentially even CI) that's a lot worse to have to migrate over. Plus, anywhere a link was published to the repo is going to point to something that no longer exists.

It actually sounds like we're in agreement for the most part about the relative levels of risk here. I misunderstood your earlier reply to me as a rebuttal to what I was saying to the parent commenter, but from re-reading it I'm realizing I might have inferred incorrectly.

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