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One of the best things that could be done for open source is to break the monopoly on those damn stars. Open source would be a lot healthier if social proof we

• evilspammer 4y ago
  ...who has ever cared about stars?
  • rad_gruchalski 4y ago
    „Our product has 5000 stars on GitHub, therefore give us money, it’s a business opportunity”. Seen plenty of those on LinkedIn.
    • evilspammer 4y ago
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  • arp242 4y ago
    "Stars" do provide a nice signal about whether something sees wide use or not. I typically check out most dependencies I add to my projects, but I will give a lot more attention to a project with 9 stars than a dependency with 9,000 stars. And it also gives a good indication what common de-facto standards are within an ecosystem.