[Vanclief]

Stars are just a signal. When I am looking at multiple libraries that do the same, I am going to trust more a repo with 200 starts that one with 0. Its not perfect, but I don't have the time to go through the entire codebase and try it out. If the repo works for me I will star it to contribute to the signal.

[tough]

I use stars for bookmarking purposes, i wouldn't care if they go private but would miss the feature

[aquariusDue]

Same along with lists. I've got more than a thousand starred repos by now.

[tough]

Sadly lists had a hard cap at 32 or 36 or something like that.. i was too eager early with my specificity (hav elists w 1 repo) and now i cant make new ones (need to delete others)

lol

found a couple non-maintained projects for managing them

https://github.com/astralapp/astral https://github.com/gkze/gh-stars

[shlomo_z]

If that works for you, great. I don't do that. I don't even check how many stars it has.

I check the docs, features, and sometimes the code quality. Sometimes I check the date of the last commit.

[mlhpdx]

I tend to put more attention on repos with 15-75 (ish) stars. Less is something obscure or unproven maybe, and above ~500 is much more likely to be BS/hype.