Recently, a wave of actions on GitHub has really upset many developers. Starting in early December, the platform suddenly began mass deleting repositories related to adult software, with no prior notice at all. Some people even discovered their projects had disappeared without warning. 🔞

What's more outrageous is that the deleted content wasn't anything obscene like images or videos—some were purely technical code, such as massage device drivers or adult game modules. Developers stated that their projects contained no images or explicit descriptions; they were simply functional implementations. But the review team seemed to ignore these distinctions and treated everything as forbidden.

The most heartbreaking part is that the support team’s responses were all templated messages, with no specific explanations. Some accounts were temporarily frozen and then quietly restored, but most people had their entire history wiped out—years of commit history, community contributions, and their entire portfolio vanished overnight. For developers who rely on their code as professional capital, this was a huge blow.

What’s the result? Developers are now shifting massively to self-hosted Git servers—no one wants to experience this kind of nightmare again, where they’re suddenly subjected to “moral review.” The trust level in the entire open-source community has clearly declined, since you never know whether the next policy update will again mark your project as a no-go zone. This reflects a bigger issue: centralized platforms have absolute power over how content is defined, and sometimes the standards are vague, and enforcement is even more arbitrary.