[geofft]

> I try my best, at minimum, to star anything I use on github as a way of supporting it , and in addition to other factors you mention, take this number as an indication of the likelihood it will continue to be developed.

I don't understand how these are correlated. Do you mean that it's likely that one of the starrers will fork it if the original project team disappears?

There are much stronger metrics for whether a project is likely to be maintained in the future. The problem with stars isn't that it's a metric, it's that it's a bad metric.