[jotto]

There's also https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome

What's causing the rise of these curated lists? Some things I've been pondering:

  * quality decline of Google search results
  * less people using bookmark aggregators (del.icio.us)
  * the trend towards feeds or transient info (fb/twitter/reddit)

[peruvian]

> What's causing the rise of these curated lists?

People with good intentions that want a repo with a high star count. Getting over 500 stars on these readme-only/awesome/"curated" list is very easy.

The problem is that curating these lists isn't easy work - people will throw 50+ PRs at you adding their random project. Most maintainers blindly accept them and then the list becomes useless.

Sindre (original awesome list author) is one of the few who actually curates their lists.

[trimstray]

I do it only for stars... really man? Creating and maintaining such a list is not a simple thing. It's not awesome or other shit in the name.

This is a collection of my short notes, one-liners, useful links, tools and more. I added it to gh, to share with others and get other interesting things. Not for stars! The amount of them is obviously nice but not crucial.

[dqpb]

What is the value of GitHub stars?

[jplayer01]

You're worth more as a person with more stars. They're like upvotes, basically.

[pizzazzaro]

>worth more as a person

LOL! Social Capital gone insanely, nakedly wrong? Or just a Freudian-style slip?

[jplayer01]

It's meant tongue-in-cheek, not seriously.

[DaftDank]

Personally, what I like about it is that it steers me in different directions of learning. When a list like this is curated by the right person, it can help you weed through a lot of low-value content sites, with similar information.

[noonespecial]

The quality decline is real:

I'm searching for one line of text. Every click gets me 100 meg of browser-choking script that leaves me bashing at the close tab button just to get the session back.

[amrrs]

Or a good archive that could be referred later. that could be an easy option with delicious but these aggregation helps in very quick reference of something that's required. Also browser and device independent.

Strange it might seem, I'm managing a personal list https://github.com/amrrs/Interesting_Links which helps me to read later and share it with someone in future.

[djhworld]

> * quality decline of Google search results

I don't think that's necessarily true, Google is really good at answering questions, it's not so good at "give me a good set of recommended resources on this topic" which requires human input.