Can no longer search code without being logged in. · community · Discussion #77046
github.com
Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body This is revolting and an anathema to the open source movement. A movement, I might add, Microsoft is abusing here. We're told that this is for security... Bu...

Response from Martin Woodward, GitHub’s VP of Developer Relations:

Sorry for the inconvenience @koepnick - while searching across all repos has required being logged in for a long time, when we enhanced the search capabilities earlier in the 2023 we had to extend this to repos as well (see https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/).

This is primarily to ensure we can support the load for developers on GitHub and help protect the servers from being overwhelmed by anonymous requests from bots etc.

  • @[email protected]
    6•1 year ago

    Google can accommodate billions of searches globally on pages it doesn’t control

    Microsoft can’t index a tiny fraction of that number, even for it’s own users.

    What a black eye for Microsoft engineering.

    • @[email protected]
      9•1 year ago

      TBF going by load times, GitHub search was perpetually on the brink of collapse since well before the Microsoft acquisition. I daren’t imagine what the indexes look like.