[gmueckl]

Even when looking only at recent ticket activity, overall popularity of a project also plays into it. A young project that generates a lot of interest may attract a lot of reports and still work great. An old, unpopular project may be a hot mess but the ticket count is low because the user base isn't there to find issues in the first place.

[onionisafruit]

Number of issues shouldn’t be a primary factor in evaluating a project. Maybe GitHub should stop featuring that so prominently in the UI.