[rafram]

GitHub doesn’t have ads and makes its money off of enterprise subscriptions (and Copilot), so I don’t think “engagement” is a very important metric for them.

[ysavir]

To the company, no. But to people trying to get a promotion/bigger budgets by proving the features they work on are getting a lot of usage, plausible.

[drdaeman]

> To the company, no.

Why not? Companies love to boast about MAUs and similar metrics (even if completely bogus), it has good effect on stock prices.

[ysavir]

Those are very general stats. They won't drop just because they disincentivize abuse of issues or pull requests.