Can no longer search code without being logged in. · community · Discussion #77046
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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]English
    9•10 months ago

    Yeah? When was the last time you clicked on a “Source Code” link and got anything other than a link to GitHub or a direct download of a tarball?

    Sure, alternatives exist – I could name half a dozen right now – but no one uses 'em.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•10 months ago

      I run into the occasional Gitlab-hosted project. Problem is, Gitlab’s equally obnoxious in its own way.

    • El Barto
      -11•10 months ago

      “No one uses them.”

      C’mon, Jack.