Presumably - otherwise they wouldn't be doing it - but it often doesn't take all that much to flip a volunteer from "Okay, this is cool, I can help other people and learn some stuff as well" to "Fuck this, it's way more trouble than it's worth." Top amongst this is when the people you're helping expect you to give them free work.

Jobs compete with other jobs, and most people expect that they'll have to do some unpleasant things in their job. Open-source & volunteer work competes with hobbies, and there are many hobbies where you never need to deal with demands, unexpected work, and interpersonal drama.

It also doesn't take much to move a company from "Okay, we'll help you by hosting your shit for free" to "Fuck you, you're banned since you are ungrateful bastards" (in nicer language of course).

I agree, and I think the GitHub employees who commented on the thread have been really patient, and that it's impressive that GitHub as a company has tolerated and supported this use case.

My point, though, is that it's not the CocoaPods developers who are ungrateful bastards. It's any Hacker News commenter here who also uses CocoaPods. If you think this behavior is insane, submit a pull request.