I had an interesting email come in about billing. GitHub thinks I owe them money...cents on the dollar but still $$. I am on the free tier on GitHub and have been the past 15+ years. image
Up til recently, ive had no bills and im not an admin on any org. It looks like all my GitHub actions on my repos are accruing billing now. None of these repos are private. So im not 100% why this is occurring.

Has this happened to anyone else? Is there something im missing here?

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[–] [S] 27 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Thanks @bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone

I went ahead and opened a support case. They fixed the issue on their side.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Did you ever adjust your budgets in your settings for your account: https://github.com/settings/billing/budgets

    I also have the free account, and I never touched the budgets section. In here, GitHub action budget is set to $0 and has Stop usage enabled.

    If these settings are set to $0 and you got charged, then I guess you can open up a case support case, since that seems like a bug.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The first thing that comes to my mind is, it might be a scam. Confirm the mail is from Github. Can't help otherwise, but this is what I think first.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Stop using github. Move to something else e.g. codeberg.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I dont have that option. Its for work.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sounds like your bosses bill, not yours.

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago

    Its on my account. I have hundreds of repos over my career. I switched a majority of them over but there is some major projects that use the repos for open source. One has been downloaded over 1.7 million times (im trying not to sound like a humble brag) If I remove them, it could potentially cause downtime. I just disabled all github actions and other things that could potentially cause billing.

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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why does github have access to your bank account?

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