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QOvery Engine: We lost 3800 stars on GitHub

Author: revskill

Score: 17

Comments: 7

Date: 2021-12-02 13:04:51

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bradhe wrote at 2021-12-02 17:45:44:

Are Stars even relevant though? I don’t understand why people are suddenly so concerned about them. Stars are neither a review nor an endorsement. No one looks at the list of “top starred repositories” and is surprised by the results—-let alone finds something new.

Also, all the People I know that actually care about stars seem to be folks who don’t actually interact with GitHub. My non-technical cofounder for my last startup was obsessed with them ans I’ve met tons of VCS who talk about star count for their developer tools.

detaro wrote at 2021-12-02 18:44:02:

I kind of associate people making a big deal about them with spam. Using them just to find yet another reason to "hype" their thing, the folks who think that you starred their repo means they get to email spam you, ...

t0suj4 wrote at 2021-12-03 09:09:32:

I treat the stars as bookmarks. I never star a project, I just Google for it if it becomes relevant.

jve wrote at 2021-12-02 18:40:50:

I am sure Github can do something about that, but they don't want to bother

I mean... Github already answered on this one. They have no tooling for that. He wants burn engineers time to fiddle with database and backups for unimportant reasons? Because someone made a mistake without thinking about consequences? Good luck with that.

Docs mention about forks being detached, but not stars:

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...

And if you leaked something to the net, what are the chances are that it hasn't already been indexed/archived/pulled/seen by someone? Moreso by bad actors that probably looks for this stuff proactively.

weare138 wrote at 2021-12-03 03:40:30:

Github should have some type of account lock feature for emergencies though. It would be a simple and straightforward solution to the problem.

tkw01536 wrote at 2021-12-03 12:19:31:

We lost 3800 stars on Github in 1 click

Last time I checked changing repository visibility required confirmation and manually typing in the name of the repository to confirm.

So it's not exactly "one click".

I also just reviewed the message being shown, it does state that stars are lost:

You will permanently lose: All stars and watchers of this repository.

A screenshot is at

https://i.imgur.com/eGNROtG.png

esteady wrote at 2021-12-02 15:42:49:

Crazy! Good learning for everyone, thanks for sharing!