Facepalm. 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.
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.
Making people sign in is a tiny barrier to entry that stops anons hammering their system with uncacheable search requests.
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.
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 your anons to be able to search your stuff? Host it yourself and manage your own DDoSes.
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.
Making people sign in is a tiny barrier to entry that stops anons hammering their system with uncacheable search requests.
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.
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 your anons to be able to search your stuff? Host it yourself and manage your own DDoSes.