IMO, Github stars and number of "forks" are just as good a metric as "number of daily downloads" of a library or Docker image or similar. After noticing how ma

IMO, Github stars and number of "forks" are just as good a metric as "number of daily downloads" of a library or Docker image or similar. After noticing how many, many companies run many, many builds through their CI systems and (for a variety of reasons) end up re-downloading everything those builds require, regardless of whether or not it has changed since the last time they ran the build, I've come to the firm conclusion that these metrics are just plain bad if one uses them as a basis to make any significant decision.