GitHub doesn't show search field unless you sign in
<i>Facepalm</i>. In this thread: A lot of overreaction from a lot of people who seem to expect the moon on a stick (for free) and who I could easily suspect have never had to run a resource-intensive system before.<p>Doing search well is computationally hard. More than that, it's next to impossible to cache for because there can be so many variants. All-in-all, it's the ideal sort of system to attack if you want to DDoS somebody.<p>Making people sign in is a tiny barrier to entry that stops anons hammering their system with uncacheable search requests.<p>Yes, there's probably also a business-marketing argument that goes into this but if that's the sort of trade-off we need to keep Github free for open source, indefinitely, I'm all for it.<p>And again, this is still free so stop being babies. If you don't like it you're very free to clone the repos out and search them yourselves. Want <i>your</i> anons to be able to search your stuff? Host it yourself and manage your own DDoSes.