GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in

Re:GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in by executesorder66 on Monday November 27, 2023 @01:01PM (#38435687)

If they are doing this intentionally, then fuck Microsoft. Bunch of assholes as always. If this is mere incompetence, then again I'm not surprised that they fumbled such a simple task. Grep is literally 50 years old. They don't even have to write any code to do text search, they could use free software if they love it so much. This isn't some amateur startup with a CRUD app and 3 devs. This is one of the largest and wealthiest tech companies in the world, and they can't even get text search to work without a login? What a bunch of losers.

If there is a 3rd explanation, I'd love to hear it.

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Re:GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in by Tommstein on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:11PM (#38438348)

> If they are doing this intentionally, then fuck Microsoft. Bunch of assholes as always.

They explicitly said that they "had" to require being logged in, so, yeah: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/77046#discussi... . Although they do assure us, however, that they're totally sorry for the inconvenience.

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Re:GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in by executesorder66 on Monday November 27, 2023 @04:59PM (#38439017)

You are correct, but I was just covering all the possibilities since I never trust what they say either.

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Re:GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in by ivank on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:02PM (#38439048)

https://github.blog/2023-02-06-the-technology-behind-githubs...

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Re:GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in by executesorder66 on Monday November 27, 2023 @05:22PM (#38439275)

Where in that post does it say that the user not being logged in is making it difficult/impossible for them to return search results?

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