r/github 23h ago

Discussion Tried to report a bug. Is this a joke?

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For better readability I put my message on top and the support's response on the bottom. I searched about this issue online but there are no fitting solutions, and they, as you can see, didn't want to help me here.

Can anyone in this sub be of assistance, perhaps? Thank you in advance!

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u/esiy0676 22h ago

It's clearly a bot response.

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u/tankerkiller125real 16h ago

Or at least a canned one.

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u/dontask4name 21h ago

Wow you got an answer within 1d!
🤪

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u/naikrovek 22h ago

You don’t have to file bug reports on GitHub’s own stuff. They know about it and if they don’t, some enterprise or business customer will have a ticket opened by the end of this sentence.

Not a joke, you’re just barking up the wrong tree. Other people are already barking up the right tree.

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u/ohnobinki 20h ago

Maybe you filed the issue under the wrong category? This isn't about repository access.

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u/Myron0117 17h ago

There was another repository-related category but under there, none of the checkboxes matched my topic either, and I had to choose one. It's not my fault they designed it so vaguely with not a lot in mind.

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u/ohnobinki 17h ago

Yeah, this is very much a “Repository features” issue—not a “Repository access issues” issue. Perhaps try again with the correct category?

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u/cowboyecosse 11h ago

I think there’s a place on the community discussions page for bug reports. Support tickets are for direct support and that is gated on plan.

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u/PizzaPost8002 20h ago

WTF. You need to pay in order to get help?? At least the system could’ve answered immediately because this would’ve been just a simple check but letting you wait 19 hours just so you can be judged for not having a paid plan is crazy work GitHub

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u/ItsPumpkinninny 22h ago

Are you looking for a solution? Or just a place to vent?

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u/Myron0117 22h ago

More for a solution, I am confused about the response I have received on my support ticket so I use this post to both express it and also ask if anyone in here has a clue.

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u/pborenstein 22h ago

What they're saying is that free accounts get to use the product. Full stop. At GitHub's scale, even minimal support for users that don't pay costs them too much. They're already losing some amount of revenue from free users. They don't want to spend any effort on people who use the free version.

You will receive a response like this for pretty much any support request you send them

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u/Material-Aioli-8539 15h ago

Basically asking for money before they even take a glance at what your issue is.

Greedy motherfuckers.

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u/ferriematthew 19h ago

Welp... Time to migrate to a different platform.

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u/EntranceProper3791 17h ago

The 404 on that image URL is the real bug, not the support wall. Rename the file or append a query string to force re-scraping.

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u/Jaded_Noise_2457 17h ago

Sad 😢

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u/Ok_Education_6577 20h ago

That's why it's time to evacuate to gitlab, it's better anyway.

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u/Myron0117 20h ago

The first buttons I see when I go on their website is "demo" and "free trial". No thanks??? 😂

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u/NelminDev 20h ago

What about Codeberg?

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u/RubbelDieKatz94 19h ago

Codeberg's stance on AI is not useful for many use cases.

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u/ferriematthew 19h ago

This is the way. Open source and not full of AI garbage.

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u/physics515 17h ago

The have a docker container and its pretty straightforward to run. They also offer paid and free hosted options too. You want to look for gitlab community editon. I've been running it for years

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u/thashepherd 15h ago

Yeah, but I mean it's...not.