The headline reads as if this is intended behaviour but it's clearly a bug (and it doesn't even occur when I try)

Misleading headline? It links to an unresolved GH issue, so no evidence that there is an actual change of policy (rather than, let’s say, a bug, or a temporary hiccup)

There is nothing worse than some Muppet who finds what's probably almost certainly a mistake or config error and then posts alarmist and "This is now a fact" posts.

Post it like "I don't seem to be able to view unless I login" or "Does anyone else find that they need to login" not as a statement of fact.

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43936992.

(Most probably the flags on the current submission were because the title was editorialized - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)