GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data

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ateesdalejr•about 3 hours ago

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.

theamk•about 3 hours ago

> 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?

llama052•about 1 hour ago

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.

verdverm•about 1 hour ago

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 projects

nerdsniper•about 2 hours ago

Why would GitHub want to restrict this?

verdverm•about 1 hour ago

because people scrape the star lists to find accounts to send emails to, they had a blog post on it last week

GitHub Has Restricted Access to Star Data

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