In May of this year, our open-source software startup Elementl closed a successful Series B round. In the run-up to the fundraising, I spent a fair amount of time preoccupied with GitHub stars. If you ...

GitHub allows users to star repositories, and repositories with a large number of stars are often considered 'popular' and 'highly reliable.' However, there are also repositories that take advantage ...

Researchers found 4.5 million fake stars on GitHub The platform’s ranking and recommendations lean heavily on stars Users are being urged to consider much more than just the number of stars New ...

GitHub has a problem with inauthentic "stars" used to artificially inflate the popularity of scam and malware distribution repositories, helping them reach more unsuspecting users. Stars are similar ...