There are a website called https://www.17ce.com/, it's a speed test service, but their server mainly located in China (Of course, it's a Chinese website), so it can be used to test status of some GFW blocks.
That website tells me GitHub is fine, and that's all, I guess.
The linked site shows it as up. Was probably a temporary connectivity issue. Other tests show a response time of 10+ seconds, so this site could have just timed out.
I have exactly the opposite experience. As a Go developer, I'm used to seeing Chinese developers and users speaking Chinese in the issue tracker showing no regard and respect to the rest of the world.
Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.
Pretty disappointing. China has blocked GitHub multiple times in the past [1], each time unblocking it due to backlash and criticism. Hopefully they unblock it again soon.
I have a friend in China who's trying to learn software development by himself. It's ridiculously hard compared to the west. It shouldn't be underestimated how Wikipedia, Stackoverflow and Github can increase your learning speed.
Sounds strange. Programming resources usually aren't blocked here - even when they're on Wikipedia. StackOverflow isn't blocked, and GitHub hasn't been blocked either.
E: Excluding Google search I've only encountered one blocked programming resource when sporadically programming on my spare time here:
golang.org - which I'm guessing is because it's on hosted on Google's servers.
Yeah but how do you search for stuff there if google doesn't work? I.e. you try to learn "udp hole punching" how do you get the relevant wikipedia, stackoverflow etc pages?
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That website tells me GitHub is fine, and that's all, I guess.
This is the speed test result for Google.com https://imgur.com/eOoxthu
This is the result for GitHub.com https://imgur.com/T9o0U79 (Red == Delay was very bad)
It seems like the github repo of that site is being flooded with issues:
https://github.com/996icu/996.ICU/issues
Not sure if they are fake users or not
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/f5et2r4-IePUTv8AvElpsQ
Not that I condone blocking github in China, but my experience with the Chinese is less than stellar.
What the fuck? They're not showing "respect" because they don't speak English?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_GitHub#China
E: Excluding Google search I've only encountered one blocked programming resource when sporadically programming on my spare time here: golang.org - which I'm guessing is because it's on hosted on Google's servers.