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.

  • @jmcs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    41•7 months ago

    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.

    So, Azure’s bot protection is crap. Good to know.

    • @satan@r.nfEnglish
      24•7 months ago

      People who haven’t hosted anything bigger than a two digit daily visitors tells Microsoft how bad their bots protection is.

    • @detalferous@lemm.ee
      6•7 months 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.

      • @azertyfun@sh.itjust.works
        9•7 months 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.