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Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#11
For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite.

But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#12
post #11

For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite. But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.

I'm in the same boat. But it seems like there's a broad range of different use patterns for them.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#13

I wish Github were more permissive with traffic-related data to your Github pages. I'm not expecting GA tags, but being able to see > 14 days of page view history would be a good start. Anyone know of any other solutions around this sort of thing?

Yeah, I don't want to include trackers because of privacy. But it would be nice to see which pages are accessed, and from where the visitors are coming. I don't need more than that, and that can be gathered from the access logs.

In my opinion, analytics should be minimal, 100% anonymous, aggregated, and open to the public - otherwise it’s spying.

I use a self-hosted Plausible analytics server to implement this[0] across all my websites, so it's all public and you get to see exactly what I see[1][2].

[0] https://hexops.com/privacy/

[1] https://opendata.hexops.com/devlog.hexops.com

[2] https://opendata.hexops.com/machengine.org

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#15

I wish Github were more permissive with traffic-related data to your Github pages. I'm not expecting GA tags, but being able to see > 14 days of page view history would be a good start. Anyone know of any other solutions around this sort of thing?

Why?

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#17
If you want see the effect of HN on a new repository: https://star-history.com/#samwillis/tetra&Date

It was on the HN homepage for about 5 hours yesterday, never higher than about 25. The initial jump on the 25th was some attention on Twitter. Also the HN link was to the website, not the GitHub. I imagine if it had been a link to the repository the stars would be higher.

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#19

Anyone know how they're creating such a cool chart like that?

The chart is generated by this,[0] which looks like a custom implementation using the same technique as this xkcd-style chart library[1] made by the same person who started this site (according to the footer).

[0] https://github.com/bytebase/star-history/tree/main/packages/...

[1] https://github.com/timqian/chart.xkcd

Re: GitHub Star History Graph

#20
post #11

For me, stars have an inverse correlation with actual usage. I'll star projects I want to look at some day, because they seem cool, like Svelte or Vite. But projects I work with daily, I don't need to star them to remember they exits, like React or Webpack.

ouch... I starr-ed Vite like, 1 hour ago... but somehow I feel you are right...
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