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GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in. (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by btp@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] btp@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I think it kind of flies in the face of what Open Source Software should be. They're walling off code behind accounts in the Microsoft ecosystem.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 12 points 11 months ago

I think it’s kind of a slippery slope; but I don’t think the search itself being login walled is apocalyptic. As long as anonymous users can clone the repositories and browse the code, I can kind of understand why they don’t want to pay to run an elastic search cluster for bots’ benefit. Presumably in-repo search could be done locally by scrapers’ hardware.

But if it turns into “login to view this repository” then GitHub will have turned evil.

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 months ago

They're not walling off any code. They're restricting use of their server-side search resources. Other repository hosting services don't have code search at all.

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee -4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It’s more gating off than walling. If it keeps access and usage free I’m ok with it.

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago

Do you really think that’s where they’ll stop, though?