Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?

#1

Post by eatitraw » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 12:40 PM UTC

The intended purpose of stars is bookmarking. "Starring a repository allows you to keep track of projects that you find interesting, even if you aren't associated with the project." [1]

However, I rarely browse my list of starred repos. I use star as a way to show my appreciation. It is sort of "Like" button for me.

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/about-stars/

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#2

Post by INTPenis » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC

Bookmarking is liking. Bookmarking means "I like this and I want to look closer at it later when I have the time" to me.

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#3

Post by soegaard » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:04 PM UTC

Both

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#4

Post by jonbaer » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

Good point, almost like an "I approve for use" type of situation, I began using Watch for a while but didn't seem to get the same notifications. I do however wish there was some alternative view to your star(ed) collection (breakup by tech/domain) because you can't really organize. Something similar to explore (https://github.com/explore) but your own items based from what you have approved.

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#5

Post by Daiz » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:11 PM UTC

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

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#6

Post by tomkinstinch » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

Daiz wrote: post #5

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

Categorization like this would be great.

I'd also like to be able to bin things as "useful today" vs "something under development to keep an eye on for the future."

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#7

Post by bsima » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

tomkinstinch wrote: post #6

Daiz wrote: post #5

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

Categorization like this would be great. I'd also like to be able to bin things as "useful today" vs "something under development to keep an eye on for the future."

Sounds like a GitHub bookmarking app would be useful, or a browser plugin...

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#8

Post by ssebastianj » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:24 PM UTC

Both

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#9

Post by jonbaer » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:25 PM UTC

tomkinstinch wrote: post #6

Daiz wrote: post #5

Primarily bookmarking. I just really wish you could create categories for your own stars (similar to how you can create your own playlists on YouTube for example), because it's really annoying having everything from "just something fun" to "actually useful for work" in just one big star pile that you can barely do anything about.

Categorization like this would be great. I'd also like to be able to bin things as "useful today" vs "something under development to keep an eye on for the future."

Yeah an easy to spot (and understandable) "staleness" rating would be +1

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#10

Post by hanula » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:29 PM UTC

jonbaer wrote: post #4

Good point, almost like an "I approve for use" type of situation, I began using Watch for a while but didn't seem to get the same notifications. I do however wish there was some alternative view to your star(ed) collection (breakup by tech/domain) because you can't really organize. Something similar to explore ( https://github.com/explore ) but your own items based from what you have approved.

I made something simple for this: http://stuff.hanula.com/starhub/ and me too, I also wish GH had some easier way to navigate and arrange your bookmarks. StarHub was primarily built for fast search.