Comment on GitHub: Can no longer search code without being logged in

• towerful@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Right, and at the expense of who?
  You can’t just quote a small section of what I say, and “gotcha” me.
  How is this at the expense of users or core features?

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  • m_r_butts@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I'll do one drastic, but not unthinkable, example. The Signal messenger source is on GitHub. You can't imagine a single oppressive government out there that would be keenly interested knowing who in their country is interacting with it? Or maybe you haven't noticed that there are a lot of countries not too keen on encryption, trying to backdoor everything or just straight-up outlaw encryption. This isn't just about a single login box. "Who's looking at what" is the kind of surveillance that blacklists thrive on.

    And please don't come back with "then use a fake email". Once you're that far gone, you're definitely breaking a user's "core experience".

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    • towerful@programming.dev ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m clearly using GitHub wrong if the search feature is that important.
      Just download the code. You don’t have to be logged in for that (that would be more of an example of enshitification). Then you can search it however you want.

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  • averyminya@beehaw.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Well for the experience of users, cookies/tracking/having to log in.

    Personally, I’m annoyed when I’m trying to do a basic function and am forced to log in. I’m not affected by this particular case with GitHub, but as a user where this happens elsewhere it is annoying.

    I’d be interested in the rationale behind the decision, asking your same question to them. Why do they need account login to search repositories?

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