Ask HN: Why so many projects set their GitHub links to /stargazers?

• auto-animate

  25 11,584 7.3 TypeScript

  A zero-config, drop-in animation utility that adds smooth transitions to your web app. You can use it with React, Vue, or any other JavaScript application.

  

I really don't understand the point of showing who have starred the project. When I open a link that ends with /stargazers, I immediately click the project name to navigate to the home page. But since I have seen too many of these, I want to ask why, maybe there's some considerations I don't know.

(Just met two "stargazer" links in the past 30 minutes: https://github.com/formkit/auto-animate/stargazers , https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/stargazers)

• payload

  160 19,444 9.9 TypeScript

  The best way to build a modern backend + admin UI. No black magic, all TypeScript, and fully open-source, Payload is both an app framework and a headless CMS.

  

I really don't understand the point of showing who have starred the project. When I open a link that ends with /stargazers, I immediately click the project name to navigate to the home page. But since I have seen too many of these, I want to ask why, maybe there's some considerations I don't know.

(Just met two "stargazer" links in the past 30 minutes: https://github.com/formkit/auto-animate/stargazers , https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/stargazers)

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• stargazers

  4 479 0.0 Go

  Analyze GitHub stars

It's analytics. Google search brings up

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-ou...

"Years ago I dedicated a Flex Friday (our version of 20% time) to stargazers, a tool to query the CockroachDB repository for information about its GitHub stars and analyze the results. At the time of writing, we had 6,000+ stars (which felt like a lot), and the data in this blog will be based on that original set of 6,000 stargazers."

Which links to

https://github.com/spencerkimball/stargazers

"GitHub allows visitors to star a repo to bookmark it for later perusal. Stars represent a casual interest in a repo, and when enough of them accumulate, it's natural to wonder what's driving interest. Stargazers attempts to get a handle on who these users are by finding out what else they've starred, which other repositories they've contributed to, and who's following them on GitHub."

• github-buttons

  5 2,838 5.8 JavaScript

  Showcase the success of any GitHub repo or user with these simple, static buttons with dynamic counts.

Exactly, seems most of them are from https://ghbtns.com/, which is not an official GitHub tool. If GitHub can make a special page to confirm starring the project, it would be ideal to use in this situation.

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