alt Hacker NewsYeah, GitHub stars is becoming a vanity metric and not indication of quality.
I have been contemplating a rating system for open source software with a mandatory tag for each star. Allows you to filter out perspectives you don’t care about.
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seba_dos1 • today at 2:01 PM
Have these stars ever been useful at all? For me they've been just a cute noise ever since they were introduced. A rough proxy for project's visibility in a certain specific context, nothing more.
> GitHub stars is becoming a vanity metric and not indication of quality
Becoming? :D Since day one, me and other's have called it a vanity metric, and trying to push back on hiring decisions being made over what developers have the most starred repositories/followers (no joke, one place I worked at almost hired one developer over another because of their "total star count" :'( ).
Stars been around for as long as GitHub been around, and people actively shouting to get people to stop caring so much about stars been around for the same time yet.