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Stars 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 perf
by Vanclief 1y ago
Stars 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