Enshittification begins again
This has been happening for a little while now. I’ve started cloning repos and using local searches instead.
I think about half a year, assuming that’s what they mean in this blog post: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-07-code-search-now-requires-login/
You’re absolutely right. I was thinking about global, unscoped search. That sucks.
Searching code globally across GitHub.com already requires users to login, but starting today, we are extending that to include repository-scoped search as well.
Wow, I was not aware of this. That’s a pretty big reason why I make my stuff open-source, so others can look through it and learn from it. I know, everyone who stayed on GitHub is officially Microsoft’s bitch now, but I still can’t fathom why this didn’t make bigger waves…
Probably because like you I wasn’t aware of what Microsoft was up to. Let’s just hope embrace extend extinguish doesn’t end up with a GitHub version of git.
In fairness though that’s just a UI for git in the same vein as things like GitKraken or GitCola atm if I’m not mistaken
