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Pff. That's a vicious circle. Then trending repos will get even trendier. Social networks are largely enough to expose that kind of "noise"/"buzz". I think that

Pff. That's a vicious circle. Then trending repos will get even trendier. Social networks are largely enough to expose that kind of "noise"/"buzz". I think that a good metric to find interesting projects that are starting or are not already under the spotlight would be to use the ratio: new visitors / stargazers. Quite hard to achieve but I really think it would be more accurate (and fair).

zthomas 11y ago
That's definitely something on my mind originally. But since I can't get traffic data from Github, the best thing I can do is to filter out the highly established repos and weigh new repos higher in the rankings. You can see that even with just 150+ stars gained for a brand new repo this system will show it at the top top of the rank despite other popular repos that might have gotten 700+ gains on that day. However, that said I do plan to improve discoverability even more with traffic data since now I can atleast measure views on gitlogs.