Hi everyone,
My account (tanmaydesai07) was recently locked, and I believe I know exactly why. I am a final-year engineering student, and I’ve been heavily utilizing Hugging Face to host my disaster prediction and geospatial ML projects.
In an attempt to keep my prototypes accessible, I made the rookie mistake of setting up a GitHub Action to ping my Spaces to keep them awake 24/7. I now realize this is a direct violation of the Terms of Service regarding free tier compute limits, and I genuinely apologize for the resource drain. I misunderstood the policy and was just trying to keep my models online.
I have already completely disabled and removed the GitHub Actions workflows from my repositories.
I sent an email to safety@huggingface.co over the weekend to appeal the lockout, but I am posting here just in case there is anything else I need to do to prove I’ve corrected the issue. I rely heavily on Hugging Face for my academic coursework and projects, and I promise to either let my Spaces sleep naturally moving forward.
Any guidance from the moderators would be incredibly appreciated!
Thanks,
Tanmay