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GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data
- theamk 3mo ago> access to this data is being limited to a repository's own admins and collaborators. Sounds fine to me? Why would a random third-party need to know which repos do I star, and who stars my repos?
- llama052 3mo agoBecause astroturfing and fake stars for projects are absolutely rampant right now. Hiding the stats makes it impossible to look at heuristics and essentially makes it even more useless as a metric of anything.
- verdverm 3mo agostars have never been a good metric, I use them as bookmarks, not a show of support or that I use a project, more often than not they have a feature or two that I'm curious about for my own projects
- ateesdalejr 3mo agoThis is concerning, now it's going to be even harder to tell if a repo is astroturfed by marketers or is really receiving organic adoption.
- nerdsniper 3mo agoWhy would GitHub want to restrict this?
- verdverm 3mo agobecause people scrape the star lists to find accounts to send emails to, they had a blog post on it last week
- githubcard 3mo ago[flagged]