7/6/2026 at 6:06:25 PM
by tianzhou
7/6/2026 at 6:51:32 PM
This 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.by ateesdalejr
7/6/2026 at 6:46:19 PM
> 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?
by theamk
7/6/2026 at 7:55:04 PM
Because 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.by llama052
7/6/2026 at 8:38:31 PM
stars 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 projectsby verdverm
7/6/2026 at 7:36:52 PM
Why would GitHub want to restrict this?by nerdsniper
7/6/2026 at 8:37:22 PM
because people scrape the star lists to find accounts to send emails to, they had a blog post on it last weekby verdverm