OPHS: Unblock Github

Sometime in the past month or so, the high school I attend has blocked github.

What is Github?

Github is a platform for education, learning, and creation. By a DuckDuckGo search, “GitHub is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. Headquartered in California, GitHub, Inc. has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018.”

It’s also what I use to upload my blog posts and host my website.

Why did it get blocked?

I do not have the exact reason why it got blocked, so this is all speculation. For starters, most IDEs are blocked on my school account and/or wifi.

An integrated development environment is a software application that provides comprehensive facilities for software development. An IDE normally consists of at least a source-code editor, build automation tools, and a debugger.

They automatically block any .io websites as many games are run on .io. However, some .io’s are IDEs as well. Non .io’s are blocked because you could run an environment in browser that could be a game.

Why it should be unblocked

GitHub Desktop isn’t an IDE, but if you don’t use an IDE with a Git or GitHub integration, it’s the next best thing. If you wanted to play a game on github, you couldn’t. You could write the code for one, furthering your education in code/programming.

Github isn’t a distraction from my education during the school day. It’s a resource for learning, for coding, for furthering my career.



Github my beloved.

Final Thoughts

Even if I am graduating in less than two months, I hope they unblock it and teach with it for our future generations. They still use Replit in classrooms, which you could play games on as an IDE. But they block Github?

Anyway, thank you for reading!