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1. Bean!_ (faho@octodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 07:38:33 JST Bean!_

   Github currently has 966 repos with over 20k stars. The most starred repository is "freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp", and the most starred repo for a software project is facebook/react in 9th place.

   You'll see a lot of documentation projects in this list - like the "awesome-foo" lists.

   One explanation for that is that people use stars as a kind of bookmark. And they don't remove their stars, so this list also includes a fair amount of dead projects.

   You will also see a lot of "flashy" projects here instead of the foundations they are built on.

   If you ever see someone use "stars" as a metric for something, that's what you should consider. For most cases, it's probably not a great metric.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 07:39:15 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @faho I used to use stars since they were there. But now I find I'm much happier without them! Having moved elsewhere.