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Nobody asked GitHub to become a social media platform. Why not improve search instead? When I want to find something, I will look for it, and know what I’m look
by u2077 5y ago
Nobody asked GitHub to become a social media platform. Why not improve search instead? When I want to find something, I will look for it, and know what I’m looking for. There’s no point in pushing a bunch of random repos in my face with an algorithm that can and will be abused.
- dawnerd 5y agoI second them improving search. If I try to search for a line of code, it doesn't consider special characters, you know the ones like everyone uses in code. Edit: somehow search autocorrected to support.
- Destiner 5y agoTheir latest code search thing [1] is pretty powerful already imo. [1] https://cs.github.com https://cs.github.com
- MrStonedOne 5y ago
- u2077 5y agoSweet! Joined the waitlist.
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoAlternatively, until that becomes available: https://sourcegraph.com https://sourcegraph.com.
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- klohto 5y agoAny comparison with grep.app?
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoWith sourcegraph, I am able to execute language context aware searches. It goes far beyond just grep-like matching and regular expressions. This page has more details: https://docs.sourcegraph.com/code_search/reference/language https://docs.sourcegraph.com/code_search/reference/language. There are other awesome features in sourcegraph, for example searching diffs, searching within specific branch or tag.
- Rendello 5y agoFor searching, https://grep.app/ https://grep.app/ is one of my favourite tools.