Both, but I will watch a repo if it's more for bookmarking something I plan to use.
Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
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Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#32None. I never click on stars. Projects that I care about have developer mailing lists, and mailing lists where people review and discuss patches. I subscribe to those. Projects that don't have that and only rely on GitHub are toy/non-serious projects that I don't care about. For bookmarking I have actual bookmarks.
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Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#33None. I never click on stars. Projects that I care about have developer mailing lists, and mailing lists where people review and discuss patches. I subscribe to those. Projects that don't have that and only rely on GitHub are toy/non-serious projects that I don't care about. For bookmarking I have actual bookmarks.
I think there's a lot of nowadays SERIOUS projects that only rely on github ticket system. Mostly because that's the way pull request are handled.
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#34Isn't it really the same?
If you bookmark something then you are ultimately thinking that at least it is worthy your attention, hence, liking?
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#35For liking / encouraging the author to continue development. I'd use the browser bookmarks or my wiki for bookmarking things instead.
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#36bookmarking cause github people are retarded
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#37Isn't it really the same? If you bookmark something then you are ultimately thinking that at least it is worthy your attention, hence, liking?
You could be bookmarking it because you think it's infringing on someone's copyright and need to go back and take another look.
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#38Both, but usually more of a bookmarking system.
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#39Isn't it really the same? If you bookmark something then you are ultimately thinking that at least it is worthy your attention, hence, liking?
I bookmark something most likely because I like it.
However, I may like many things but still do not bookmark them.
Re: Poll: Do you use GitHub stars for bookmarking or for “Liking”?
#40Primarily 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.
This already exists, check out http://astralapp.com/
I really like Astral. I do wish it were open source though.