Edit found the link [0], do not believe it mentions reason but links github blog

From Github [1]: > These endpoints and views currently expose public lists of stargazers and watchers, and this information has increasingly been misused to collect user data for spam activities which negatively impacts user experience and platform trust.

[0]: https://www.star-history.com/blog/github-stargazer-api-restr...

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-30-upcoming-access-res...

I've put up with a lot of stuff, but this would be my personal last straw.

Any time I try to use the site while logged out I immediately hit all sorts of rate limits and spam prevention measures. Issues and pull requests stop loading almost immediately. Searches are extremely restricted, like i think literally one search is all you get sometimes unless you login.

It’s hard to tell how much of this is intentional and how much is GitHub infra not being stable. My daily renovate bot that looks for updates for specific packages times out and encounters errors almost every time it runs and it’s barely doing anything. And it has an api key. I know I’m not hitting limits, some queries just don’t work >50% of the time on some repos.

I wasn't browsing /trending on github until I started using AI, wanting to see what cool projects people are working on.

Ask HN: What alternatives to GitHub are you using? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44876289 - August 2025 (97 comments)