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Are Stars even relevant though? I don’t understand why people are suddenly so concerned about them. Stars are neither a review nor an endorsement. No one looks
by bradhe 5y ago
Are Stars even relevant though? I don’t understand why people are suddenly so concerned about them. Stars are neither a review nor an endorsement. No one looks at the list of “top starred repositories” and is surprised by the results—-let alone finds something new.
Also, all the People I know that actually care about stars seem to be folks who don’t actually interact with GitHub. My non-technical cofounder for my last startup was obsessed with them ans I’ve met tons of VCS who talk about star count for their developer tools.
- detaro 5y agoI kind of associate people making a big deal about them with spam. Using them just to find yet another reason to "hype" their thing, the folks who think that you starred their repo means they get to email spam you, ...
- t0suj4 5y agoI treat the stars as bookmarks. I never star a project, I just Google for it if it becomes relevant.