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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[–] 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Sigh, here we go with the shittyness.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's okay. We need to move some shit off GH anyway. They're basically a monopoly on FLOSS code.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Yeah? When was the last time you clicked on a "Source Code" link and got anything other than a link to GitHub or a direct download of a tarball?

    Sure, alternatives exist -- I could name half a dozen right now -- but no one uses 'em.

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