I actually think the new koders (code.ohloh.net) is an improvement over the old coders in many ways, but wanted a leaner implementation.
Also while ohloh was working on the new version koders was becoming stale hence starting my own. Lastly I thougth that this sort of service should provide an API which ohloh sadly does not (hopefully this will change).
Ooooh, good point. I'm an engineer for Black Duck and in charge of Ohloh.net. We have an API for most everything available on Ohloh.net (Organizations, which is still in Beta, is an exception and we're going to fix that real soon).
We're working on an improved code search and I want to leverage this new infrastructure, which should start being available for our internal development in the next few weeks, to make code search a top-level citizen within Ohloh. For example, searching for key phrases within a project right from the Project page.
I'll add some stories to the back log to see what we can do to make the code search itself API accessible.
You mentioned "leaner implementation"; could you expand on that a bit? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Sounds good to me. An exposed API is a big boon, and the lack of one is one of the main reasons I started searchcode.
Sure, just email me at bboyte01@gmail.com and ill be happy to discuss. Mostly it comes down to not overcrowding the UI and running on minimal hardware.
