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.
Yes, English is the "universal" language, whether we like it or not, and speaking in another language in a public place (such as a github issue tracker) is disrespectful, because it's like gatekeeping information and knowledge.
No it's not. This is imperialist thinking. There is no universal language.
If you want to understand what they're saying hire a translator or use an online service. They're not using some obscure language only a few people understand.
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?
Chinese Bing has an interesting feature where it pop ups a dictionary definition when you hover over any English word in the search results. Even with that, not everyone's English is good enough to understand Wikipedia/StackOverflow/... so they use Baidu Baike/Zhihu/... as alternatives.
Chinese Wikipedia is blocked. I thought parts of English Wikipedia was blocked somehow as well, but seems like that's outdated information (after they started enforcing https in June 2015[0]). You'll find a list of the blocking methods on the Great Firewall wiki article[1].
Very good news. For alternative open source git providers. And for p2p git versions. One on zeronet and one on ipfs. Wait, git is p2p itself in its core? So p2p issue boards with search may be OK.
Using a VPN usually slows down your connection quite a bit if it's located outside the GFW, so most devs in China probably aren't using a VPN to access GitHub (myself included).
