I went to look at a repo on Github today. Clicked on the "xxx commits" link to see the commit history, and got told I've hit a secondary rate limit and need to wait.

I'm the only person on this network that would even look at Github, and my connection has a dedicated IP, no CGN.

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blinded 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The only real way to browse the site is to be logged in.

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MYEUHD 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you're on the desktop, refresh the page cache by using Ctrl + Shift + R

The page will load correctly

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graemep 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Exactly the same here. I get that regularly.

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noprocrasted 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah this is just typical techbro gaslighting. There is no rate-limit and hasn't been for years (it's just default deny), but they refuse to change the wording to reflect.

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dcrazy 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Would you care to cite your source that GitHub does not apply rate limits to unauthenticated requests?

	▲	noprocrasted 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The parent's experience which mirrors my own - on a clean residential IP that hasn't sent any traffic I hit that "rate-limit" on my first request to the commits list view. So there is no rate-limit, it's a default deny for unauthenticated requests... which could be fine but at least update the error message to reflect that.