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.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    311·
    1 year ago

    I migrated a few code repositories from Github to GitLab literally the same day it was announced that Microsoft was acquiring Github.

    The only regret I have is not evaluating a few other options like Codeberg or whatever. But GitLab’s much better than Github.

    • ISOmorph@feddit.de
      17·
      1 year ago

      Gitlab requiring a phone number verified account to report bugs kinda turned me off of that platform. Never used Codeberg but heard good things.

      • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
        6·
        1 year ago

        I don’t have a (usable) phone number.

        I’ve reported bugs.

        I’ve contributed code.

        How did I skate?

      • twei@feddit.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Codeberg is awesome, it’s just like github but open source and self-hostable (forgejo)