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Stars also can act as bookmarks to projects. There are tools out there (https://github.com/simonecorsi/mawesome is the one I use for my private stars list) which can take your stars and turn them into a markdown file.
The real revelation here is that people take this kind of Imaginary Internet Points seriously enough that there's a tool to algorithmically assess the quality of a project's GitHub stars[0].
Like: what?
Stars are basically the laziest possible way of doing anything with a repo besides looking at it. What possible signal of any value could anyone possibly hope to discern from a repo's star count? And yet not only is there an economy of counterfeit stars (flares? c.f. pieces of flair, which are equally meaningless), there are people who care so much about stars and flares that there's a whole 'nother economy behind discerning which are which.
Mind. Blown.
[0] Astronomer, mentioned in TFA https://github.com/Ullaakut/astronomer
I absolutely couldn't care any less about how many stars my repos have. The fewer, the better.
I basically write my code for my own consumption. Some of my projects are kinda weird[0], because they were designed to fill a specific need at the time.
[0] https://github.com/RiftValleySoftware/RVS_IPAddress
Regarding the issues, there are some projects like git-bug https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug trying to embed these sorts of meta-work into git.