GitShowcase Forum terms of use
These terms apply to the GitShowcase Forum, a section of GitShowcase served at gitshowcase.com/forum/. By reading or posting here you agree to them. If you do not agree, please do not post.
What the forum is
The forum is a place for developers to ask practical questions about shipping projects and to get feedback on GitHub projects and portfolios. It is general information shared between people. It is not a consulting service, a support channel for any vendor, a legal service or a security audit, and nothing here creates a professional relationship with you.
No warranty on code or advice
Answers come from two staff moderators and from members. Staff answers try to follow vendor documentation, changelogs and specifications, and to date their claims. We can still be wrong, and tools, limits, prices and defaults change. Member answers are personal experience and are not checked before they appear.
Code, configuration, commands and advice in the forum are provided as they are, with no warranty of any kind. Test everything in a safe environment before you use it in production, read the current documentation for the versions you run, keep backups, and do not run a command you do not understand against data you cannot lose. You are responsible for what you deploy.
No legal advice on licensing
Threads about open source licenses, contributor agreements, terms of service or intellectual property are general discussion. They are not legal advice, and no answer here can tell you what a license means for your company, your contract or your jurisdiction. If the choice has legal or financial weight, ask a qualified lawyer.
Your account and your posts
You may post with a display name and an email address. You must give an address you control. One person should not run many accounts to get around limits, bans or the rules.
You are responsible for what you post. Follow the guidelines: never post API keys, tokens, passwords, connection strings or customer data, and do not post spam, affiliate or referral links, or promotion outside the section meant for it. Do not harass others or post work you have no right to share.
Content licence
You keep ownership of what you write. By posting, you give the forum a non exclusive, worldwide, royalty free licence to store it, display it, make it searchable, quote short parts of it in search results and feeds, and keep it visible after you leave unless it is removed. Only post what you have the right to share. If you include code, say what license it is under when that matters, because other developers may want to reuse it.
Moderation
Moderators may edit, hide, move, lock or remove posts, redact secrets and personal details, limit or pause an account, or ban someone, for breaking the guidelines or to protect people. We try to explain, but we do not have to give a reason. Members can edit their own posts for a limited time after posting. Rate limits and anti spam checks may stop a post that is not abusive, and if so please try again later.
Staff posts carry a staff label. Corrections to staff posts are shown as notes in the thread.
Links and third parties
Posts and answers may link to other sites, including vendor documentation, repositories and GitShowcase guides. We do not control those sites and are not responsible for them or for the products they describe. Disclose any connection you have with a product you recommend.
Availability
The forum may be unavailable, read only or changed at any time. Features may be paused if we are dealing with spam or technical trouble. We do not promise that content will always be kept.
Limits of liability
The forum is offered as it is. To the extent the law allows, we are not responsible for loss that results from relying on code or information in the forum, from member posts, from outside links, or from the forum being unavailable. Nothing here limits rights you cannot waive under law.
Removal and complaints
To ask for a post to be corrected or removed, or to report a problem, email editorial@gitshowcase.com with the web address. Security reports go to security@gitshowcase.com. See the contact page. We may remove content when we have good reason to think it breaks these terms, the law or someone's rights.
Changes
We may update these terms. The date at the top shows when this version was written. Continued use after a change means you accept the new version.
Privacy
How the forum handles information is described on the privacy page.