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eblume | 1 year ago

It's worth mentioning here I think that github's code search is really quite good. I'm not trying to say that github can do no harm or that github "owning" OSS code hosting is a good thing, but the github search bar is a utility that IMO is worth the price of admission.

I think that sourcegraph maintains a similar quality OSS code search that can be searched for free but I have not personally used it.

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AlotOfReading|1 year ago

The problem is that GH makes it the login process as painful as possible. Login tokens expire frequently, necessitating new logins. Logins require 2fa every time, which makes them extremely flow-breaking. Post-login you're not returned to the file you were on, so now you need to navigate back to search.

Logins are per domain and per device, so I end up dealing with this 4x per day if I'm using GitHub heavily. It's unnecessary.

plorkyeran|1 year ago

This is not at all my experience with Github? I go through the 2fa flow maybe once a year, if that. I have to go through the SSO flow for my employer's private repositories once a day (which is my employer's policy, not Github's), but that properly redirects to the page I was trying to access.

Does your employer have a SSO flow that requires 2fa every time and doesn't redirect properly afterwards? That would be pretty annoying, but it's not Github's fault.

kelnos|1 year ago

That's strange; I've been logged in to GitHub without having to re-log-in for.... a year or two now? I cannot remember the last time I had to log in. Maybe I visit the site more often, though, and that has something to do with it? Or the network you visit from is for some reason flagged as high-risk?

aseipp|1 year ago

To me, ordinary login is one of the things they've genuinely improved over time I feel? I absolutely never deal with logins more than once a day per machine? With stuff like Passkey support now, I basically click two buttons in 1Pass and I'm logged in instantly on ~everywhere. I also feel like I never have my tokens expire.

I'm probably not doing the same stuff as you. It's sudo/elevated mode that really gets you I think, if you have no fast flow. Admittedly I don't add keys or anything like that very often.

acheong08|1 year ago

What? My login tokens haven’t expired in years. I don’t think I’ve had to sign in twice on the same computer ever