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Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

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Post by fiatjaf »

mgraupner wrote: post #8

This 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 t…

About following references to other repos, there's this Chrome Extension I built that is slightly related:

http://fiatjaf.alhur.es/gh-browser/

It adds links directly to GitHub source code (to other GitHub repos or external documentation) whenever it finds import/require statements.

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

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Post by r3bl »

leeoniya wrote: post #4
x1798DE wrote: post #3

Is 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.

This is not the only problem I have with a mobile version.

Yesterday, I tried finding my own issue that I submitted two minutes ago to update it with a screenshot from my phone. Had to type in the full URL manually at the end.

I love being able to quickly edit my notes from my phone, but no, I have to revert to the desktop version to be able to edit the file.

Not being able to see my feed is definitely a huge disadvantage.

All in all, I use the desktop version quite a lot. At least it's easy to switch to it.

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

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Post by jsilence »

caleblloyd wrote: post #48
danmaz74 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wonder what the rationale behind this move is. I wouldn't even have noticed as I'm practically always logged in, but was that search bar lowering the conversion rates to free users, or what?

Probably because Github is constantly under DDOS attacks, search is computationally expensive, and they can't rate limit unauthenticated sessions. http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/26/github_wobbles_under_d...

Yeah, probably one of the reasons.

I don't understand why one would DDOS Github. What is the reason for that?

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

#55

Post by ionforce »

jsilence wrote: post #54
caleblloyd wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because Github is constantly under DDOS attacks, search is computationally expensive, and they can't rate limit unauthenticated sessions. http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/26/github_wobbles_under_d...

Yeah, probably one of the reasons. I don't understand why one would DDOS Github. What is the reason for that?

Street cred.

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

#56

Post by newjersey »

caleblloyd wrote: post #48
danmaz74 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really wonder what the rationale behind this move is. I wouldn't even have noticed as I'm practically always logged in, but was that search bar lowering the conversion rates to free users, or what?

Probably because Github is constantly under DDOS attacks, search is computationally expensive, and they can't rate limit unauthenticated sessions. http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/26/github_wobbles_under_d...

Google rate limits unauthenticated sessions. Try using Google over tor. They are pretty heavy-handed about it too. Github isn't tiny enough to use ddos as an excuse.

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

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Post by ryan-c »

sdesol wrote: post #41

This seems like a good time to advertise my search engine for GitHub and Bitbucket. You can learn a little more about it at http://gitsense.github.io And as the screen shot below shows, you don't need to be logged in, to search a repository. http://imgur.com/W1Qx59h To make the long story short, you can install our indexing engine on low cost platforms like $10 VPS plans from DigitalOcean/Vultr or on dated hardware l…

How much of github do you index? I was just raging this morning about how annoying it is that github ignores symbols when searching.

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

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Post by caleblloyd »

newjersey wrote: post #56
caleblloyd wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because Github is constantly under DDOS attacks, search is computationally expensive, and they can't rate limit unauthenticated sessions. http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/26/github_wobbles_under_d...

Google rate limits unauthenticated sessions. Try using Google over tor. They are pretty heavy-handed about it too. Github isn't tiny enough to use ddos as an excuse.

TOR still uses cookies so a session ID can be set for the user agent and rate limited.

DDOS scripts create new sessions on every attack request. It's a very hard problem to solve without blocking legitimate traffic too.

Re: GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in

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Post by ikeboy »

jsilence wrote: post #54
caleblloyd wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably because Github is constantly under DDOS attacks, search is computationally expensive, and they can't rate limit unauthenticated sessions. http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/26/github_wobbles_under_d...

Yeah, probably one of the reasons. I don't understand why one would DDOS Github. What is the reason for that?

Hosting NYTimes articles critical of China.

http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/03/github-battles-large...

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