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by penguinten 1265 days ago
Hey guys - creator here. Have hit the Github rate limit and currently not working! Am trying to fix! Thanks for all the support!
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Might be worth asking users to "login with GitHub" to get past the rate limits (the anonymous rate limits are lowwww like 10 per hour).

Logging with GitHub is still lowish but like 1k per hour or so. (IIRC)

I didn't expect this many people to try it out haha - with hindsight, absolutely should have
There’s no way I’m logging into rando apps using my GitHub id. Aside from their bad UX and the potential to accidentally over grant permissions, the app could abuse GitHub ToS with my credentials and get me banned.

Not worth the risk just to play around with a site.

Funny that github is the bottleneck rather than the OpenAI for once.
Do the request from the browser and that won't happen because the request source will be distributed.
Need to download the files to the server to generate the embeddings!
Update: just shipped a fix for the rate limits - you will need to signup for an account and put your own personal access token in.
The sign-up form doesn't seem to allow passwords with non-alphanumeric characters in them. Ironically, when it sees one, it complains that "password must have at least one number and at least one letter" (even though it already does) - I suspect that's just a catch-all message for invalid passwords?

In any case, the restriction makes it incompatible with pretty much all password generators, including the built-in ones in modern browsers. To improve matters, I would suggest dropping all restrictions on what cannot be included altogether.

Had a broken validator - fixed!
shakes fist at Microsoft
How are you avoiding hitting the rate limit for open ai apis