Article is from February 6, 2023. I thought its something “new”.
Oh, whoops! I didn’t notice its timestamp when I read it 😅
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!
I always found the code search more distracting than helpful. Just let me use the browser native Command + F ffs.
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
I think it’s referring to when you’re searching the entire code base(s), as opposed to individual pull requests.
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.
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
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.
Code search is an amazing feature on large codebases :)
