[scottyeager]

> * No way to search across multiple repos within GitHub. > * No way to easily see open and closed issues in the same view.

I don't quite understand, because searching issues across all of Github and also within orgs is already supported. Those searches show both open and closed issues by default.

For searches on a single repo, just removing the "state" filter entirely from the query also shows open and closed issues.

I do think that semantic search on issues is a cool idea and the semantic/fuzzy aspect is probably the biggest motivator for the project. It just felt funny to see stuff that Github can actually already do listed at the top of motivating issues.

[dgellow]

GitHub search is pretty unreliable from my experience. Search results are limited to 1000 items, and you never know if the index you’re searching against is up to date — unless a file has been opened recently in GitHub web UI there is a significant and unpredictable delay between a commit and the indexing.

So far I’ve been very happy with Livegrep, we are using it to search across ~10k repos, the index is rebuilt once an hour with a simple cron job. Searching is insanely fast, it’s using very little resources, just a simple computer engine instance. The main downside is the lack of multiline search, but so far that hasn’t been too much of a problem.