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/
- SamsonSeinfelder ( @SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de ) 103•10 months ago
Hey Guys, Microsoft is cool now, they really care for Open Source now, they changed.
How do people always forget, how often they get fucked by that company in the last 20 years, that they think anything changed? They still abuse their monopoly, they still buy up the work of others and they still will then dilute it down for their bottom line and restrict it to force you to use a login to harvest data on your profile (see also Windows).
Everyone who said it’s cool that MS bought Github, because they are now Pro-Open-Source: Can we please have a round table every 2 years and talk. Because I think you guys are victims of the Stockholm syndrome and do not even notice.
- TechNom (nobody) ( @technom@programming.dev ) English2•10 months ago
Apparently, this change was in 2016 - before MS bought them. However, I agree with your point. But the proof of that isn’t in restricting search to logged in users. It’s in how they ripped off FOSS code (esp GPL code) for training copilot. They did something that fundamentally damaged the roots of FOSS activity.
- Jaysyn ( @Jaysyn@kbin.social ) 1•10 months ago
restrict it to force you to use a login to harvest data on your profile (see also Windows).
FYI, there is no forcing here. Heavy suggestions, but no forcing. I’ve never used a MS or Hotmail account to log into Windows 10 or 11.
- stifle867 ( @stifle867@programming.dev ) 14•10 months ago
On new installs it does force you. I had to do it today (Windows 10). There are workaround such as attempting to log into a banned account, or other weird hacks involving disconnecting the internet and know the right combinations of hidden menus to navigate.
- ParetoOptimalDev ( @ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today ) 2•10 months ago
If some has to know to unplug the internet, try to sign up, and force an error to bypass sign up…
It is forcing.
- agilob ( @agilob@programming.dev ) English78•10 months ago
Fantastic way to start a shitstorm. You people don’t even use search function logged out, because if you did, you would know they changed it in 2016. Microsoft has nothing to do with it.
searching across all of github was made to be logged in then
repository level searching though is relatively recent. Heres the blog post about the change dated in June this year https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/
This comment by an employee in the thread also calls out it was in 2023 and links to the blog post
- agilob ( @agilob@programming.dev ) English3•10 months ago
Heres the blog post about the change dated in June this year
Half year too late for that outrage anyway :)
- burliman ( @burliman@lemm.ee ) 20•10 months ago
I’m getting so exhausted with the constant outrage in every goddamn feed in my life.
- whoisearth ( @whoisearth@lemmy.ca ) 5•10 months ago
Ignore it, laugh and increase your awareness that people are dumb as shit but also have the humility to realize you’re also people and are also dumb as shit.
It makes life far more palatable.
- Ringmasterincestuous ( @Ringmasterincestuous@aussie.zone ) English3•10 months ago
So begins our final transformation… idiocracy
- whoisearth ( @whoisearth@lemmy.ca ) 2•10 months ago
The alternative is depression
- emptiestplace ( @emptiestplace@lemmy.ml ) 3•10 months ago
do a post
- The Hobbyist ( @TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip ) 13•10 months ago
I have been able to search logged out within a repository, up to this year. I think what you are referring to is search across all repositories. That was indeed disables a while ago. But things did change this year, unfortunately. So yes there is a legitimate and new issue… Once more.
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English2•10 months ago
It’s not new, but it’s possible that this is the first ticket created to discuss it. I don’t search github using their shitty search anymore anyway: Long live https://sourcegraph.com/
- mark ( @mark@programming.dev ) 1•10 months ago
This is helpful. Thanks. Didnt even realize it. No need to use something to point out how its not a good look. It’s still good to bring more awareness around how sites like Github are becoming a more of walled gardens. I agree with everything else you said though.
- lysdexic ( @lysdexic@programming.dev ) English20•10 months ago
The biggest news to me is that GitHub allows users to search code. Every single time I tried to search something in GitHub, search results were next to completely useless, and always a sure-fire waste of time and effort.
There’s hope, I guess.
- SinTacks ( @SinTacks@programming.dev ) 32•10 months ago
lol? That must have been a half ass attempt on your part because GitHub search is fantastic.
- lysdexic ( @lysdexic@programming.dev ) English6•10 months ago
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?
- NotSteve_ ( @NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ) 3•10 months ago
I don’t find the search too bad but what does make it difficult is digging through a million forks of a library. Sometimes I want to find how other people used an obscure library method and I end up having to wade through endless forks with the same repeated bit of code.
This is more a complaint of people using forking as a like button but I do wish there was an option to exclude them from search.
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) English10•10 months ago
Honestly, I can’t wait for Forgejo to implement federation. Gitlab might do so too after Forgejo shows that it’s possible and gets a major following. They already are letting one external dude implement it after having slept on it for a good decade.
- ISometimesAdmin ( @ISometimesAdmin@the.coolest.zone ) 9•10 months ago
Fuck’s sake, people. Gitlab already didn’t allow search unless you were logged in.
This ain’t enshittification. - Jaysyn ( @Jaysyn@kbin.social ) 7•10 months ago
And this is why my Org rolled our own Gitea server.
- farcaller ( @farcaller@fstab.sh ) 5•10 months ago
FWIW Sourcegraph chrome extension adds a neat “open in Sourcegraph” to github pages and SG is just superior. Why would you use Github’s mediocre search either way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Anders429 ( @Anders429@programming.dev ) 3•10 months ago
It’s been this way for years. Really?
- ParetoOptimalDev ( @ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today ) 2•10 months ago
Microsoft sucks for this, outlook, “open source vscode”, and many other reasons.
That said my current workaround is to use sourcegraph.