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Bring back sort:indexed for code searches
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Select Topic AreaProduct Feedback BodyOn March 10th you informed public that you'll deprecate the I think this was done quite quickly - only 30 days after the deprecation notice. Are there any plans to bring this feature back/to the new search API? I think this is a very commonly used feature, which helps users to see most recent code changes containing some search term in a repo. |
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My reading is - until we give @LiteBrite82 a valid use case - he can't help us? Do you need a bigger use case than say - searching for code that's new?
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@johndpope It's not Github. Github was for us - developers. But now Microsoft trying to make the life of developers harder for some profit because it's a for-profit company. Remind me of Disney in some way. |
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well, a year passed, still keep mess/garbage |
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Any updates when this will be fixed? |
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I get some repos are created on github and maybe automatically indexing them causes problems for authors where they thought that the repo would be hidden because it wasn't linked to or somehow they think repo is a secret or they don't enable privacy. then results bubble that can be sensitive. UPDATE |
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@benjsilverstein also submitted a very helpful use case last July. My predecessor had some useful insight to the root cause of the indexing issue. This same thread, July 5, 2023 |
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I cant tell if this is a sick burn, or a real bug. I couldn't replicate your issue, can you provide more specifics (search parameters)? If it is indeed a sick burn; well played, I appreciate you. |
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this is my search |
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Not that my comment is going to change anything, but please for the love of God, implement sorting by recency. |
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I hate that I have to dig outdated code in search results. This is a real pain Microsoft inflicted on developers.😔 |
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Yes, that's right, did Microsoft change people or what? |
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That's because every company nowadays, including Microsoft, go with the DEI (Diversity, equity, and inclusion). They don't hire people based on their performance. |
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The code search results now are much wores than that in about 2 years ago. |
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Bro, even Microsoft Windows 95 had a better search engine almost 30 years ago. |
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It is almost as if people who do NOT program and making these decisions. 🤦♂️ https://images.app.goo.gl/ZBprA5JiMh8Pofd3A |
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We want our sorting back please... |
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Give it up! This discussion can be closed now. |
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Giving up is not an option. This is sparta! We want our sorting back! |
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my life would be much better if this would return |
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Bumping this again. I would be forever grateful if they added this feature back. |
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A year has passed, GitHub remains castrated without this feature, what a disgrace! |
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pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee |
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Please bring the power of Reddit here ;) |
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This is exactly what we need to people unite |
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Please bring the old search back. Why force everybody to use something that doesn't work and it is a UI disaster :( |
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At least make it filterable by date |
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+1, you cant do anything without searching... |
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Please give us the option to use the old version, this is disturbing a lot, the user can have the option of which of the two models to use. |
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Please make a way for us to use old functionality of search. As my works is immensely effected by that. It's an humble request 🙏 |
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Please turn on the old search feature again |
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please enable old search . |
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Please allow us to revert to the old search in the meantime +1 |
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Everyone, thanks for the feedback. We've definitely heard that sorting by date is a feature many people miss from the old code search. Unfortunately due to the way our new code search index works (which you can read about in some detail in this blog post), implementing sorting by recency is complex. We are thinking about way to make this work in the new code search system, but don't have a date for when it will be possible. I'll update again here once we have a more concrete plan. |
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don't get it? your not "sorting by recency" on the whole corpus, just the results. |
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Hopefully you guys are saving lots of money with the drop in people making searches.😂 I wish I could revert back to old code search. |
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Please turn on the old search feature again, Github became useless to me as I only get result from very old code. please do something! |
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Can we get an update? |
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@colinwm - can you maybe hire some people that could help ? |
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Besides not being able to sort by recency, now if you want to see when the file has been updated, you have to hover the filename. |
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Not that they removed a useful feature - the new version outputs no data... besides that... I dont want to see 10 year old code as example for anything. this sucks massively... but I dont think we will see this feature again, Microsoft doesnt care. |
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I'm using it, it's incredibly awful that they removed that feature. |
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yeah i need to find shadowsocks config |
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Maybe openly admitting to misuse the feature won't help bring it back. |
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Yes, made CS almost unusable 😢 |
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This is one of the worst decisions github made... I am using this feature extensively. If they drop it, code search is just garbage search. |
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I can't agree more |
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Indeed, I agree! It has also removed Sort by: From the code search! |
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super angreeee |
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Yes, please bring this back. It makes it a total hassle to search for only recently updated repositories meaning both the client and server side are having to do excessive amounts of work and data transfer when the client code doesn't even want that. Example: 10000 results, one only cares about the last 100 recently updated. With prior model this was easy. With current it forces the client to fetch the entire result set and then post-filter. Total regression. |
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can't agree more |
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Wtf, you have just broke the entire GitHub usability without a concrete search method like sorting code by date. Competition is waiting for such mistakes. |
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Must have feature |
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indeed a very common and useful feature that must be present ! |
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Good Advice |
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Thanks for this context @benjsilverstein. It sounds like you have a lot of duplicated code and therefore finding the most recent examples is very useful to you. It's really helpful to hear examples like this to prioritize work on sorting.
We have definitely heard loud and clear that people want to be able to sort by recency. As I've mentioned in previous responses, the way it was implemented previously does not work for our new code search, because we rebuild the index frequently and the initial build would give everything the same date. We would like to implement this using the time the file was committed, but that is not easy to access in Git due to how data is stored in a repository.