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Maybe if the bot operators have the resources, but it's far from trivial to keep an up-to-date mirror of every project on Github, especially if Github is active
by mmahemoff 3y ago
Maybe if the bot operators have the resources, but it's far from trivial to keep an up-to-date mirror of every project on Github, especially if Github is actively putting up barriers to prevent it. Once login is required, it becomes much harder to bypass rate limits because the company can rate-limit signups from unknown domains, enforce 2FA, etc.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoThey can do all this (rate limits, etc.) for unregister accounts already, and most users would never notice that (since a human only does a few searches per time unit), but they decided to require a login anyway.