Sourcegraph went dark

Damn, I use Sourcegraph so much for my reverse engineering efforts on macOS. They index all those private framework symbols that people extract on every macOS release, and allow searching for headers and even how they are called by other developers that were ahead of me.

A big part of https://lunar.fyi exists thanks to Sourcegraph search. Even now I'm using it to find a way to enable the second monitor on M3 MacBooks without needing to close the lid [1].

I really hope this is not a sign of them taking back the ability to search in the future.

[1] https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/turn-off-macbook-display-clams...

Glad you use Sourcegraph! I remember that blog post and thought it was awesome. I am the Sourcegraph CEO, and we haven't changed anything about our public code search at https://sourcegraph.com/search. That's the same product tons of customers use for their internal code, and our public code search is a really important way for us to dogfood, iterate fast, etc.

We just made our own internal codebase private.

> I am the Sourcegraph CEO, and we haven't changed anything about our public code search at https://sourcegraph.com/search.

But in this other comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41298516), you said you have changed public search in two significant ways:

> We did cull lots of non-GitHub repositories and repositories with less star.

Removing low-star repos (and non-GitHub high-star repos) affects users who are looking for obscure or hard-to-find information that's not found anywhere in "popular" repos. I think most of my searches on GitHub (or via Google) are for things in repos with zero stars.

> If you have repositories you want us to add that are below the star threshold [..]

How would I go about finding which repos to request, if my objective is to search the "long tail" for information? That seems like I would need an automated search engine first, to discover the repos :-)

If I found the repo containing specific, obscure or hard-to-find information I was looking for, what would I gain from writing to SourceGraph asking to add that one repo? By the time I've found the right repo, I've probably found the information I'm going to get from it. Future searches will likely need a different repo, one I don't know about yet. Perhaps that's the nature of long tail searches.