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

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit:

Since theres been some confusion with dates

In 2016 github made site side searching login only and hid the search bar if you werent logged in. This didnt include searching within a repository so that could still be done, just not all repositories

This year was the change being referred to in this link which made repository level searching require logging in

Blog post: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (2 children)

must have been a half ass attempt

How hard do you need to try to use a feature for it to be considered decent? Do you expect something as basic as a search to put up a fight?

[–] minorninth 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on what happened when you tried to search? I’ve never had trouble.

[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 11 months ago

GitHub search simply won't find search terms that I know are there (because I can grep them in my local repo). It also fails to search all branches. There's also insufficient filtering for filetypes or paths.

Maybe I'm just spoiled from having used OpenGrok, as well as knowing how to use basic tools like find and grep, all of which I find substantially more useful.

[–] grue 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Do you expect something as basic as a search to put up a fight?

Increasingly, you should be. Search algorithms from Amazon to Google are getting deliberately enshittified in order to force you to see what they want you to see instead of finding what you were actually looking for. For example, things like quotation marks and the minus operator no longer work. I would be supremely unsurprised to learn of Microsoft following suit.