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Re: Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in

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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?

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

Did they add code search now?

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in

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But Github is not a content company and they don’t really own copyright to almost anything hosted there.

There is a cost to serving up all that content, and if hundreds of AI start ups are all trying to pull in data, that can add up fast. It’s not typical user behavior.

If it’s just static content it wouldn’t really be that expensive. In reality egress traffic is extremely cheap compared to what Azure/AWS etc. are charging.

Re: Tell HN: GitHub is blocking search unless you are logged in

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They also completely removed the activity from people you follow from your homepage, claiming everything should be under "explore", while promoting their recommendations provided by an algorithm. They claimed it "used too many resources".

Everyone complained about this decision, fast-forward 6 months, Microsoft doesn't give a fuck.

I used the homepage to learn about new projects people I follow are working on or interested it, but now it's nearly impossible to find out.

Enshittification is real.

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