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		munchler on April 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We lost 54k GitHub stars What concrete benefits does a project get from having lots of stars? I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just wondering what the stakes are, since I don't have a lot of open source background myself.

dmitryminkovsky on April 15, 2022 [–]

I'm not sure if there is a fixed universal set of concrete benefits. It probably varies from project to project and the people involved.

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