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Do people use GitHub stars for something? Sometimes I star things but I have no idea what it does or why I do it.
by wilg 5y ago
Do people use GitHub stars for something? Sometimes I star things but I have no idea what it does or why I do it.
- mattgreenrocks 5y agoIn the absence of metrics to use for ranking, it is hilarious how people co-opt whatever weak metrics they find and then retcon a deeper meaning into them. “They’re not stars, they’re a community!” What percentage of your community actively contributes bugfixes?
- layer8 5y agoIt’s basically just a bookmark for yourself. And GitHub shows how many users have “bookmarked” a particular repository.