Ask HN: Why do you star GitHub repos?

[mrjoelkemp]

Serious question. Issuing a star means different things to different people: bookmarking, encouraging, doing a favor for a friend, publicizing, and more I'm sure.

Why do you star?

[bpierre]

80% bookmarking / 20% love (same with my Twitter favs)

[sharmi]

A mark that I trust and I am interested in the project. In the aggregate, it demonstrates the reliability and trustworthiness of the project. To me, A healthy number of stars/follows/forks (along with recent commits) proclaims that I needn't hesitate to use the product of that repo in my projects. Starring is to partly pass on that favor, to share my knowledge of what works and what doesn't.

[codegeek]

Many reasons.

- Something that is of interest to me. May be I will use it sometime in future on my own project. For example, I have bookmarked wyswig editors (summernote) built using bootstrap. Might use them in future.

- Frameworks that I work with. E.g. Flask. Want to keep an eye on latest updates, issues, resolutions, patches etc.

- A developer/person that I want to follow. I star their repo that is most relevant to me.

[edavis]

Encouragement, mostly. My way of saying, "I can tell a lot of effort went into this. Thanks for putting it together."

[karangoeluw]

1. Bookmarking 2. Love

[adolfoabegg]

mainly bookmarking

[jwheeler79]

all of above