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Stars are akin to a like on youtube, which seems to be used in the social game of github. If there is a metric, there will be people worshiping it, and the sam
by PurpleRamen 3y ago
Stars are akin to a like on youtube, which seems to be used in the social game of github. If there is a metric, there will be people worshiping it, and the same is true for those stars. Though, I'm not sure how big the impact of them really is. For example, there is https://github.com/trending https://github.com/trending where you will see how many new stars the popular projects gained today.
- justrealist 3y agoIf I'm deciding between open-source libraries, choosing the library with 12 stars is far riskier than choosing the library with 2,500 stars. I know it's not a perfect measure but I don't have infinite time to spend researching every choice I make, and this is (for now) a pretty reasonable heuristic that a library is maintained and has eyeballs on it.
- drexlspivey 3y agoI’ve been using stars as bookmarks instead of likes. A lot of times I’ll encounter a problem and remember that there was some software that solves it and go through my starred repos to find it. Guess I’m in the minority
- PurpleRamen 3y agoYou are not alone with this. It's probably even the original purpose of it, considering that some browsers use star-icon for their bookmarks. And GitHub even supports this by having lists for managing starred repos.