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Although I'm not a fan of GH, I appreciate the ability to see how popular/valid some project is by looking at the number of stars (I know this is far from a per
by throwfaraway135 11mo ago
Although I'm not a fan of GH, I appreciate the ability to see how popular/valid some project is by looking at the number of stars (I know this is far from a perfect signal).
I'm much less likely to try projects that have a low number of stars, or projects in different places.
- ocdtrekkie 11mo agoOne of the things Forgejo has been working on is federation, such that hopefully someday we can replicate the discoverability of GitHub without a central provider.
- 59nadir 11mo agoGod forbid we'd have to actually look at the code itself to figure out whether something is good.
- monooso 11mo agoGP explicitly stated that they use stars to determine the popularity of a repository, not the code quality.