I think that is due to bots causing performance impact and the easiest way out i...

		miduil on July 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Gitlab.com doesn't allow issue search wit... I think that is due to bots causing performance impact and the easiest way out is mandatory login + banning/rate-limiting searches for authenticated users. I can't remember where I read about this though, overall GitLab had lots of bot/scraping performance issues in the past and the GitLab project has so many issues that it's particularity expensive to maintain.

This may be a case where a CAPTCHA test may be a good alternative to logging in. That could have less tracking potential.