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Ask HN: Why do you star GitHub repos?
Serious question. Issuing a star means different things to different people: bookmarking, encouraging, doing a favor for a friend, publicizing, and more I'm sure.
Why do you star?
- karangoeluw 12y ago1. Bookmarking 2. Love
- bpierre 12y ago80% bookmarking / 20% love (same with my Twitter favs)
- jwheeler79 12y agoall of above
- codegeek 12y agoMany reasons. - Something that is of interest to me. May be I will use it sometime in future on my own project. For example, I have bookmarked wyswig editors (summernote) built using bootstrap. Might use them in future. - Frameworks that I work with. E.g. Flask. Want to keep an eye on latest updates, issues, resolutions, patches etc. - A developer/person that I want to follow. I star their repo that is most relevant to me.
- sharmi 12y agoA mark that I trust and I am interested in the project. In the aggregate, it demonstrates the reliability and trustworthiness of the project. To me, A healthy number of stars/follows/forks (along with recent commits) proclaims that I needn't hesitate to use the product of that repo in my projects. Starring is to partly pass on that favor, to share my knowledge of what works and what doesn't.
- edavis 12y agoEncouragement, mostly. My way of saying, "I can tell a lot of effort went into this. Thanks for putting it together."
- adolfoabegg 12y agomainly bookmarking