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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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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 43 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.nf 26 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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 points 11 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.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Its* own users.

[–] skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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