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IMO hiding the stars is the most useful feature here because I never understood why stars are public in the first place. People just use stars in completely di
by zauguin 4y ago
IMO hiding the stars is the most useful feature here because I never understood why stars are public in the first place.
People just use stars in completely different ways such that the information that someone starred something ends up being basically pointless. E.g. people star stuff just because they want to look at them later and having a public link to these profiles isn't really reflecting their relationship with them. I know multiple users (myself included) who were pretty surprised when they first learned that this is all visible.
Of course instead of hiding the stars it might be better to add a private similar feature instead...
Anyway the whole "sharing the development experience" features in GitHub are IMO mostly weird. I'm using GitHub to develop open source software, not because I'm looking for another social network.
- jimmy2020 4y ago> I never understood why stars are public in the first place. We star because we like the code, the idea, the execution and the maybe the impact of the project. And it's encouragement. You star a project you pushing it forward. This is the human experience. We are not machines worshiping code. We care about what others think and this is why github is different. > Of course instead of hiding the stars it might be better to add a private similar feature instead. Agreed. Hiding means giving more space to anonymous users do we want that? > I'm using GitHub to develop open source software. Same. And i am not coding for myself i also need other to be part of what i am building and that's supposed to be part of the mission. Increase interactively. Instead this feature does the opposite.
- dividedbyzero 4y ago> We star because we like the code, the idea, the execution and the maybe the impact of the project. And it's encouragement. You star a project you pushing it forward. This is the human experience. We are not machines worshiping code. We care about what others think and this is why github is different. I use stars as bookmarks, no more than that.
- jimmy2020 4y agoI don't know about you. But if I am using an open source project in my stack I prefer to star or support, better do both. Hint: This is the culture I need github to promote. Giving back to the community.
- bennyp101 4y agoI just star things that I think I might come back to look at later ... basically bookmarking it
- jimmy2020 4y agocool still, why hiding it? I mean you can add bookmark this project feature instead of introducing the anonymous user.