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People have wildly different views on what Github stars are. Some see it as a way to bookmark project you find interesting while other simply stars whenever the
by kankroc 8y ago
People have wildly different views on what Github stars are. Some see it as a way to bookmark project you find interesting while other simply stars whenever they feel like the project is impressive.
Bottomline is: it's not a good metric, it's simply a way to see how "popular" something is and how likely it is that some random developer saw your project.
While anecdotal, I've starred Vue because I see it as a cool project and I've starred React as another cool project. In both case, I did toy projects with the frameworks and never used it in production. On the other hand, apache/httpd I did a lot of projects with and I did not give it a star yet.
In my opinion stars are not endorsement, they're a questionable way to measure how likely it is that your coworker have heard of a given project.
- 49531 8y agoAlso having created, promoted, and contributed to repositories with >100 stars it seems that ~10% of people who view the repository will star it. Not sure how reliable it is but I've always taken stars to indicate how many people have seen the project.
- styfle 8y agoI have a couple projects that are getting a decent amount of stars recently and I'm looking at the stats for the last two weeks: - One has 3750 unique visitors, and 680 stars in 2 weeks - Another has 80 unique visitors, 20 stars in 2 weeks
- hahamrfunnyguy 8y agoI use 'em like bookmarks.
- prophesi 8y agoYeah, a more interesting article would be "Github Stars === x", because I've never been sure what they're for.
- bamboo_7 8y agoOhhhhh, now I understand why that one ex-coworker that 'follow' stars about 20 projects a week. I always used them as bookmarks and I couldn't believe that they ever were going to use that many things.