The number of stars and forks indicate the interest in the repository to me. I'm not sure if I'm convinced this has worked as a bookmark for my repositories: n

The number of stars and forks indicate the interest in the repository to me. I'm not sure if I'm convinced this has worked as a bookmark for my repositories: no one ever removed a star from any of them, and no one ever returned with any feedback later. It could be a matter of a small sample size, or of people never actually coming back (which is the bookmark's use case).