The GitHub Black Market That Helps Coders Cheat the Popularity Contestylai@lemmy.ml to Programming@programming.dev – 56 points – 12 months agowired.com23Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsShow the parent commentStars don't really do that much, people mostly use it to "favorite" your repo. Or just a general "Upvote" or something I have a repo with about 1.4k stars, so what it gives you: The Starstruck badge in your profile with different tiers at 16/128/512/4096 stars Visibility in search: When you search for something in Github, it takes into account the amount of stars something has Not sure if that affects other searches, like google Even more stars (apparently like 5k+ or more) gives you Github Copilot is free if you're a "maintainer of a popular open source project" 7 more...
Stars don't really do that much, people mostly use it to "favorite" your repo. Or just a general "Upvote" or something I have a repo with about 1.4k stars, so what it gives you: The Starstruck badge in your profile with different tiers at 16/128/512/4096 stars Visibility in search: When you search for something in Github, it takes into account the amount of stars something has Not sure if that affects other searches, like google Even more stars (apparently like 5k+ or more) gives you Github Copilot is free if you're a "maintainer of a popular open source project" 7 more...
Stars don't really do that much, people mostly use it to "favorite" your repo. Or just a general "Upvote" or something
I have a repo with about 1.4k stars, so what it gives you:
Not sure if that affects other searches, like google
Even more stars (apparently like 5k+ or more) gives you