[HN Gopher] Introducing the new star-history.com - the missing G...
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Introducing the new star-history.com - the missing GitHub star
history graph
Author : tianzhou
Score : 65 points
Date : 2022-01-23 15:18 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (star-history.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (star-history.com)
| jstrieb wrote:
| This is very cool! I like that multiple repos can be added to the
| graph at once. Previously, I have used https://starchart.cc/,
| which is similar, but lacks this feature.
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| Tangential: I know there are people who collect stars on their
| projects and use them as badges of pride and perhaps put them on
| their resumes. I've never quite understood this. I never look at
| how many stars a project has and I have never starred a project
| as far as I am aware.
|
| What am I missing?
| lancesells wrote:
| I use them as a bookmark in Github.
| seanw444 wrote:
| Same here. Sometimes I'll go through bouts of starring tons
| of cool repositories that I find useful or interesting, to
| save them for later when I have time to fully check them out,
| or when I know they'll come in handy.
| bewuethr wrote:
| I use stars and the new lists feature built on top of it mostly
| like a GitHub specific bookmarks tool.
| efrecon wrote:
| I feel the new list feature is missing the ability to have
| many lists. 10 (or whatever the max is, can't remember) is
| too little. I'd like to have many more categories available.
| What do you all think?
| BugsJustFindMe wrote:
| Stars are a soft indicator of community reach. Between any two
| similar projects, one with more stars has plausibly more people
| aware of its existence and more people who wanted to say "I
| like this".
|
| "I never do X, therefore..." is a closed mindset that people
| should try to get away from. Ok, so you don't star projects.
| But clearly other people in general do star projects, so stars
| shouldn't be a huge mystery.
| goodpoint wrote:
| Stars are very much unrelated to quality and impact of a
| project.
|
| Case in point: the top 20 starred projects include joke
| projects, "awesome" lists and some javascript stuff.
|
| It's probably also easy to buy stars.
| manquer wrote:
| It is relative to other tools in the same space and beyond
| a point it is meaningless.
|
| I.e. I would be happy to find a library with 100 stars in
| say elixir and similar threshold would be say few thousands
| in JavaScript.
|
| Beyond 10-20k it is just popularity. It is meaningless
| whether vue or react is more popular.
|
| Also it is only one indicator between choosing libraries,
| how many active contributors, how many closed and open
| issues , when was the last release also matters as well.
|
| Bottom line is you try to avoid something very few people
| use or only one guy is developing
| ma2rten wrote:
| I'm not sure what your point is. Stars are decent indictor
| when comparing two projects in the same category.
| throwthere wrote:
| Yeah they're a rough universal indicator. Unless you can
| mention a better one that's just as simple I don't think
| the counterpoint you're making is very strong.
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| Well, right. Which is why I asked the question. Appreciate
| the answer!
| isomel wrote:
| >"I never do X, therefore..."
|
| That's not what he said, he said rather "I never do X, what
| am I missing?"
| nurgasemetey wrote:
| I use github stars with
| https://github.com/abhijithvijayan/stargazed for bookmarking.
| It really makes easier finding something by keyword.
| RobotCaleb wrote:
| That seems like a pretty worthwhile project, actually. Thanks
| for sharing that
| jacquesm wrote:
| Projects faking their traction by incentivizing people to star
| their project even though they have never used the repo.
| simonw wrote:
| A challenge with open source is that people can use your stuff
| without ever telling you about it. It can sometimes feel like
| releasing software into the void - any glimmer of interest is
| motivating, and stars represent a glimmer of interest.
| nyellin wrote:
| 1. It's a proxy for measuring how interested the community is
| in your project.
|
| 2. A lot of people use star counts to determine whether or not
| your project is reputable.
|
| 3. As founder of a company with a major open source project,
| it's one of the only reliable data sources we have for
| benchmarking our own community growth. I can't see historical
| (or present) traffic numbers for other open source projects in
| the kubernetes space, but I can see the history of their star
| counts. That's really useful when you need to set goals for
| community growth
|
| 4. Some VCs care about it
|
| As with most metrics, the metric in and of itself isn't
| important. What it measures (community growth) is. So be
| careful to optimize the latter and not the former
| 323 wrote:
| 1000 stars on GitHub are about as powerful as 1 million
| followers on Instagram. If you don't understand why 1 million
| followers on Instagram are life changing, well...
|
| Being a gitfluencer is extremely valuable.
| jacquesm wrote:
| If they are organic, yes.
| boomskats wrote:
| So this is the same timqian codebase? Just rebranded?
| agluszak wrote:
| Opinion: I really dislike the font in the graph, it's hard to
| read
| tianzhou wrote:
| star-history.com is already the de-facto GitHub star history
| graph. Recently, we just finished a major update.
|
| 1. Generate high resolution chart image. 2. Timeline mode to
| align trajectory among repos debuted from different times. 3.
| Embed chart into other websites. 4. Temporarily toggle a
| particular repo.
|
| We try to keep its original sketching feel while rewrite the
| entire site using modern stack (Vue + TailwindCSS + Vite).
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| Hope these improvements will make it more useful to open source
| project maintainers.
| nyellin wrote:
| I just want to say thank you!
|
| The timeline mode is fantastic
| amrrs wrote:
| Star History is the gold standard of this..if any Python
| enthusiast is interested in implementing this in Python, this
| tutorial uses it to teach steeamlit https://youtu.be/TzF-OUA1Tlo
| liorgrossman wrote:
| Congrats on your re-launch - nice work!
|
| At Openbase.com we're building the star count charts by using the
| GitHub GraphQL API (as we use it for other things like collecting
| stats about commits, issues and PRs).
|
| Looking at how star-history works, seems like you opted for using
| the GitHub REST API - what are the upsides / downsides of using
| the REST API?
| francoismassot wrote:
| Fan of start-history.com here, thanks for your work.
|
| One feature is missing: search repository with a nice
| autocomplete would be very useful.
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