GitHub Stars are only good for measuring GitHub Stars

December 31, 2024

⭐ GitHub Stars are only good for measuring a project’s number of GitHub Stars, not much else.

Now we can include fake GitHub Stars in “not much else.” Over 3.1 million fake “stars” on GitHub projects used to boost rankings

(via @jonafato)

Originally posted on: https://micro.webology.dev/2024/12/31/github-stars-are-only-good.html