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isodevtoday at 3:06 PM1 replyview on HN

Number of stars also excludes self hosted forges. Stars is more of a GitHub-wants-to-be-a-social thing than actual measure of popularity.


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cmrdporcupinetoday at 3:16 PM

Yeah, I was going to come here to say this. Apart from a) stars are a dubious metric b) 5000 stars is an insanely high bar, there is the issue that there are definitely lots of projects that choose not to partake in GitHub at this point.

That said, they do have a "contact us" line in there which implies some flexibility.

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