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I often notice interesting but not very useful projects getting a lot of stars because they generated some discussion on HN. I think reviews would be better. I'

I often notice interesting but not very useful projects getting a lot of stars because they generated some discussion on HN. I think reviews would be better. I've used the reviews, both the number of reviews and the average, on the WordPress Plugin Directory to decide what plugin to install, and find them to be reasonably accurate. Something like this for other platforms besides WP would be great.

Deimorz 8y ago
This is definitely true. My SubredditSimulator repo has 433 stars: https://github.com/Deimos/SubredditSimulator https://github.com/Deimos/SubredditSimulator That's not an incredibly high number, but it's still a pretty good amount. Despite that, in over 3 years, it has never had a real issue submitted, never had a single pull request, and as far as I know there isn't even another instance of the code running anywhere. So it certainly doesn't seem to be a "useful" project to anyone else by any measure, and the stars came entirely from attention on HN/reddit/etc. without any connection to whether that repo actually has any value to anyone.