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GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
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Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#2Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#3Is this a new change? I was really annoyed by this today when trying to navigate a repository on mobile. Pretty annoying.
Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#4Is this a new change? I was really annoyed by this today when trying to navigate a repository on mobile. Pretty annoying.
Yes, this looks new...and terrible as it further silos discover-ability, which instead should be easier for open source projects.
Github's mobile experience has been pretty bad in general. their mobile view doesnt even have the primary feed D: Instead it has a "repositories you contribute to", which is probably the most useless thing I could imagine for a logged-in view.
Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#5Is this a new change? I was really annoyed by this today when trying to navigate a repository on mobile. Pretty annoying.
Pretty new. I was bitching about it to a friend immediately after I discovered it last week.
Honestly, it makes Github feel much more like those vaguely-shady we-won't-tell-you-anything-substantial-until-you-give-us-an-email-address-that-we-can-sell-to-our-"valued partners" websites.
That's... not really the direction you want to be heading in when you want to be known as a stable, reasonable place for widely-used projects to be hosting their source code.
Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#6https://github.com/search
True, but the search bar remains unavailable when you've used github.com/search to navigate to a repo.
This is a serious regression.
Off-topic: @dang, can we get a "Upvote this comment if has less than 1 point, else don't upvote it" button?
Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#7My reaction when I wanted to searched for a file in a larger github repo, and the search bar was missing: I just cloned the repo and used `git grep` locally.
What's the next step? Cloning only allowed for logged-in users?
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#8This feels like a move away from offering the greatest opensource project hosting site to a walled garden. I was just browsing some repository and found a non linked reference to another project which probably is also on Github but there is no way of searching for it when I'm not logged in (and knowing the search URL somebody posted earlier). Pretty big UI fail and I wonder if this was intentional and if so if they took into account the annoyed users...
I hope this will gain some more attion than the 6 comments right now, I really like Github for just browsing and exploring new projects, no need to be logged in for doing this and hopefully not just the first step to a more business driven Github.
Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#9https://github.com/search
True, but the search bar remains unavailable when you've used github.com/search to navigate to a repo. This is a serious regression. Off-topic: @dang, can we get a "Upvote this comment if has less than 1 point, else don't upvote it" button?
> Off-topic: @dang, can we get a "Upvote this comment if has less than 1 point, else don't upvote it" button?
The font-color of the comment (aside from links already visited) should be enough to indicate if it has positive or negative karma. Individuals can decide whether to upvote or downvote further at that point.
Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
#10Search is still there https://github.com/search although there is no link to it from the main page: https://github.com. Try and find it if you can!
However the search inside a repo is missing now and using site: to search inside a repo doesn't seem to work with Google.