[dc3k]

I don’t think I have ever starred anything on Github. I think in this sort of situation I would add the star and remove it once the fix is added.

[baal80spam]

I'll star a repo when I want to add it to my "favourite" or "interesting" repos - they are all listed under "Your stars". Is there a better way of achieving the same?

[absdiff]

I'm using a local gitweb instance for this purpose. I have a directory of favorite repos cloned using "git clone --mirror" and a cron job to sync them every 3 hours. gitweb provides a web interface for browsing them.

I like that it lets me open files without JavaScript enabled and search the code without logging in. I still use GitHub.com to read the issues on a couple repos though.

Example of what gitweb looks like: https://sourceware.org/git/ - There's also cgit which is similar: https://git.kernel.org/

[nishs]

is lack of privacy your issue with the "your stars" page? consider a bookmarks manager.

[Narushia]

You can make the profile private and it’ll hide the stars.

[actionfromafar]

Can't hide the stars from Github itself though. Keeping as much preference data away from social networks as possible is not an unreasonable stance, IMHO.

[Hamuko]

You also can't hide the fact that you're browsed or even cloned the repository from GitHub, since it's on their servers.

[actionfromafar]

Perfect is the enemy of good. Much harder for some website to correlate random dowmloads to a specific identity.

[stjohnswarts]

not a bad idea. in that case you can just bookmark them, no?

[yjftsjthsd-h]

Why wouldn't you use bookmarks like for everything else?

[avgcorrection]

In general those things seem like site-specific bookmarks. As a general principle I want to just use one bookmark feature for all web things.

[MrDresden]

That just seems like petty behaviour.

[chupapimunyenyo]

Why?

[johnnyanmac]

because I don't give out fake likes.

[hawski]

You can give genuine ones.

[em-bee]

not when giving a star is a condition for having a report accepted.

i barely ever star any project. stars are public and so i will only star the most important projects that i want to recommend to others.

but i do occasionally make reports to projects that i don't actively use or don't want to recommend. if a project doesn't want my report without a star, then well, good luck to them.

[hawski]

Yes, but this particular sub-thread started with GP saying:

> I don’t think I have ever starred anything on Github. (...)

[em-bee]

i don't get what you are trying to say. i haven't starred anything either, and i'd consider giving a star just to get a report accepted as fake just like GP...