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Ask HN: What is your personal opinion about GitHub stars?
Starring a Github repository has some interesting connotations attached with it. Github uses it for ranking repository popularity while stating it's use a form of bookmarking.
I personally feel that starring is one of the most underutilized features. How do you interact with a project once you star it? Do you revisit them often? Does a project's # stars signal reliability / adoption / hotness?
- fridaa 10y agoStars certainly influence how people perceive a repo. If there are no stars, then I'm less likely to look at it. The problem is that it's also a catch-22. If you have a lot of stars, more people look, and more people star. It's self fulfilling, definitely not a perfect system.
- _RPM 10y agoI think that would be a network effect.
- chris_7 10y ago"Why would I do that instead of just using a browser bookmark?", I guess? Bookmarks are effectively anonymous, which I like.
- zackboe 10y agoI use Astral to filter/search through my starred repos http://astralapp.com/ http://astralapp.com/