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Of course, github could just drop the stars, but everything has to entshittify towards "engagement" and add social network features. Or users could ignore the
by nottorp 1y ago
Of course, github could just drop the stars, but everything has to entshittify towards "engagement" and add social network features.
Or users could ignore the stars and go old school and you know, research their dependencies before they rely on them.
- Vanclief 1y agoStars are just a signal. When I am looking at multiple libraries that do the same, I am going to trust more a repo with 200 starts that one with 0. Its not perfect, but I don't have the time to go through the entire codebase and try it out. If the repo works for me I will star it to contribute to the signal.
- shlomo_z 1y agoIf that works for you, great. I don't do that. I don't even check how many stars it has. I check the docs, features, and sometimes the code quality. Sometimes I check the date of the last commit.
- mlhpdx 1y agoI tend to put more attention on repos with 15-75 (ish) stars. Less is something obscure or unproven maybe, and above ~500 is much more likely to be BS/hype.
- tough 1y agoI use stars for bookmarking purposes, i wouldn't care if they go private but would miss the feature
- aquariusDue 1y agoSame along with lists. I've got more than a thousand starred repos by now.
- tough 1y agoSadly lists had a hard cap at 32 or 36 or something like that.. i was too eager early with my specificity (hav elists w 1 repo) and now i cant make new ones (need to delete others) lol found a couple non-maintained projects for managing them https://github.com/astralapp/astral https://github.com/astralapp/astral https://github.com/gkze/gh-stars https://github.com/gkze/gh-stars
- benwilber0 1y agoGithub was a "social network" from its very beginning. The whole premise was geared around git hosting and "social coding". I don't think it became enshittified later since that was the entire value proposition from day 1.
- nottorp 1y agoFunny, I'm pretty sure I paid them just so I don't have to maintain my own git hosting. I never even noticed the stupid stars until they started being mentioned on HN.
- rafram 1y agoSee the tagline under the logo, May 14, 2008: https://web.archive.org/web/20080514210148/http://github.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080514210148/http://github.com...
- nottorp 1y agoI'm sorry, but I never read the main github site. I only spend a few seconds on it when my login expires and I need my repository list. 99.99999% of my interaction is via git pull and push :)
- eikenberry 1y agoThere are tons of places you can use for simple git hosting. The only reason to use github over the others is due to the social factors. Because everyone already has an account on it so they can easily file issues, PRs, etc. For simple git hosting, github leaves a lot to be desired.
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