New comment by mlpotato in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

mlpotato — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:41:53 +0000

I wonder if it makes sense for GitHub to use graph-theoretic measures like PageRank instead of raw stars. In simple terms, a repo is considered important if it is starred or forked by GitHub users who maintain other important repos.

It’s more expensive to compute, but the resulting scores would be more trustworthy unless I’m missing something.

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New comment by mlpotato in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"