[theamk]

> access to this data is being limited to a repository's own admins and collaborators.

Sounds fine to me? Why would a random third-party need to know which repos do I star, and who stars my repos?

[llama052]

Because astroturfing and fake stars for projects are absolutely rampant right now. Hiding the stats makes it impossible to look at heuristics and essentially makes it even more useless as a metric of anything.

[verdverm]

stars have never been a good metric, I use them as bookmarks, not a show of support or that I use a project, more often than not they have a feature or two that I'm curious about for my own projects