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Stars on GitHub are huge in open source. 54,000 stars is a big deal and puts your project into a super-elite category.


What concrete benefits does a project get from having lots of stars? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just wondering what the stakes are, since I don't have a lot of open source background myself.


I'm not sure if there is a fixed universal set of concrete benefits. It probably varies from project to project and the people involved.


If it’s such a big deal then why is GitHub not intervening to help a “super-elite” tier of project?

Devs retconned the concept of a like onto a star. That doesn’t mean they are the same thing.


> If it’s such a big deal then why is GitHub not intervening to help a “super-elite” tier of project?

That's why this is a #1 post.

> Devs retconned the concept of a like onto a star. That doesn’t mean they are the same thing.

Yes, the semantics are ill-defined.




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