Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor

Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by bttger on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:45AM (#30257328)

In my opinion this is even worse when searching for GitHub issues on Google. I prefer searching for issues on Google but since last year there are so many results of websites that show nothing else than crawled GitHub issues. No idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues. These results don't link to the original issue on GitHub, are often outdated, have bad UX (e.g. the code snippets), and don't allow participating in the discussion.

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by PhantomGremlin on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @07:51AM (#30257780)

No idea why they are higher ranked than the original GitHub issues.

Not to be too cynical about it, but who serves the ads on those sites?

If it's Google Ads, then I think you have your answer as to why they are higher ranked.

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by onionisafruit on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:02AM (#30258452)

My theory is github is getting down ranked due to performance. When you view an issue on github the page gets built from mysql queries and can be slow for large issues. gitmemory and the others just serve the content they scraped, so they load much faster.

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by stjohnswarts on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:38AM (#30259668)

Seems like they would ignore that "performance" parameter for major information sites like github/reddit/stack/etc

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by nomilk on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:10AM (#30257928)

Genuinely curious to know now..

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by HWR_14 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @12:07PM (#30261046)

Or it could be because Google dislikes MS owning so much developer mindspace.

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by tessie4 on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @08:27AM (#30258098)

You can use site: or inurl: (or a combination) to constrain the search to GitHub.

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by wanderer_ on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:43AM (#30258943)

Often just putting the site name (e.g. "github.com") at the end of the query is enough to do that for me.

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