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Wouldn’t “star” express gratitude?

• rglullis 6y ago
  Interest, relevance? Yes. Gratitude, not so much.
• bamboleo 6y ago
  Might thought exactly. I wonder if GitHub would change Star to Thanks. Unstar however would become “No thanks”
• corobo 6y ago
  Saying "thank you" expresses an infinite amount more gratitude than someone taking half a second to click a button. Please don't boil positivity down into just another dopamine fix. It's so fucking fake. Star too, donate too, whatever you'd like to do normally too but nothing beats actually using your words
  • the_arun 6y ago
    If you put it that way, I think GitHub could enable a platform feature to collect finance contributions from fans/users. Heck, even licensing costs. That makes open source programmers earn some money as well - of course along with a text field to say “thanks”.
    • from 6y ago
      https://github.com/sponsors https://github.com/sponsors Github launched Github Sponsors in 2019. It does basically everything you described aside from the "thanks" part.
      • corobo 6y ago
        This feels like corp every meeting I've been in hahah "No I said don't do th.. ah forget it"