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Comment by bhaney | Hacker News Reader

This has been the case since the new code search replaced the old one ~9 months ago. The new code search is more resource intensive so Github chose to only make it available to users. I agree that it sucks to not have code search available when logged out, but it's not a new change and I don't think it was done with malicious intent.

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I don't actually care whether intent is malicious or not. GitHub has not cared about me or individual devs like me for some time now. Time to drop it.

How does that work? You don't want to sign in to the site so now you will replace it with another site. Presumably you don't want to sign in to that other site as well, so what are you using the service for in the first place?

> now you will replace it with another site.

Or you can self host! Github's changes pushed me to self host recently.

https://voussoir.net/writing/git_dot_voussoir_dot_net

Oh I'm happy to stay logged in to SourceHut!

Did they add code search now?

No, doesn't look like it. (I had to check.)

any requirement to log in is done with malicious intent.

what other purpose could it hold other than to harvest your data for their own undisclosed purposes?

Maybe anti-bots or something, but there are other ways to do that. Besides, a bot might just make an account.

> any requirement to log in is done with malicious intent

Wild!

I was very unhappy when they did this. The new search btw is shittier than the old one and this was a classic case of breaking the rule of "If ain't broke, don't fix it".

I miss the old search, it was able to sort results.

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