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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The new technology is: show a message saying "Whoaa! You have busted your limit!" on every search.

I didn't do a search for 6 months, but whhooaaa! Calm down with your searches!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I always found the code search more distracting than helpful. Just let me use the browser native Command + F ffs.

[–] RonSijm 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That doesn't really work all the time, because large files or large commits are lazy loaded on scroll, so what you're searching might not have loaded yet

The code search does a server side search

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I’m usually using it not to search the codebase but to search for something specific with a file.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think it's referring to when you're searching the entire code base(s), as opposed to individual pull requests.

[–] refalo 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I wish they didn't switch to requiring a login to search code... seems like a big privacy issue cause you just know they're saving all those searches and associating it with your account.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That’s a fair point. I’ve always assumed it was a form of rate-limiting, but you’re right, that’ll be part of their analytics at least

[–] refalo 4 points 1 month ago

I can see the argument from both sides... and maybe both is true. I think the same could be said about twitter... having to login to read tweets means they can easily track who looks at what... which is very valuable information to a lot of people with money.

[–] u_tamtam 1 points 1 month ago

This is Microsoft enshittifying the platform they acquired to squeeze more revenue. But this is totally fine, because as user hostile and evil as the Microsoft corporation measurably is, they made a cute jpg few years ago about loving opensource or something (yeah, I know, those are different things, but I'm calling out their PR bullshit and the usual bootlickers)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Article is from February 6, 2023. I thought its something "new".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh, whoops! I didn’t notice its timestamp when I read it 😅

[–] nhu 2 points 1 month ago

I enjoyed the article anyway. Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Code search is an amazing feature on large codebases :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

... we haven’t had a lot of luck using general text search products to power code search. The user experience is poor, ...

It is?