Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by indykish1 » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

I use it for liking, interesting to read that it can be used for bookmarking

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

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Post by indykish1 » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:42 PM UTC

I use it for liking, interesting to read that it can be used for bookmarking

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

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Post by peterjmag » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:45 PM UTC

I voted for bookmarking, but I use it for a bit of both, confusingly.

I feel like what I'm missing is some sort of mechanism for privately bookmarking repositories, perhaps with optional tagging or personal notes. I usually star a repo with a particular purpose in mind, e.g. "oh this could be an interesting way to solve problem X at work" or "ah finally, an MIT-licensed alternative to Project Y". As it stands, there's not really any good way to store that kind of info.

(On a related note, I don't really like the fact that your starred repos can't be made private.)

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

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Post by S_A_P » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

I rarely can keep up with/remember bookmarks so I usually will fork a repo that I "like", even if I dont do anything with the code. This may not work for everyone, but in my case seeing it in my repo list happens much more frequently than visiting my list of bookmarks.

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

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Post by popasmurf » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:52 PM UTC

I've replied to someones comment with this already, I think it deserves more attention though. For those of you using Stars for bookmarking check out http://astralapp.com/ for organisational purposes.

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

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Post by thebouv » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

Both, really. I like this enough to look at it again when I have time.

I rarely "watch" a project however.

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

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Post by eatitraw » Tue, Apr 21, 2015, 1:57 PM UTC

jqueryin wrote: post #14

Interesting poll. I can only imagine you have a use case for building something. I'm in the same boat. If anybody is interested on working on a Github star related project with me, let me know. It'll have a huge impact on how individuals use Github. I intend on this being for-profit with Stripe payments. I've been working on it in stealth as my pet project but it's closing in on being publicly available. It uses Lara…