We lost 54k GitHub stars

Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by mynameisvlad on Thursday April 14, 2022 @07:24PM (#31034771)

True "Undo" is, IMO, a pipe dream for all but brand new projects. That will pretty much require you to rearchitect a decent chunk of anything that wasn't built with it explicitly in mind.

In this case, I don't quite understand why stars and forks need to be deleted when switching visibility, since it seems like the two shouldn't be linked. I can star and fork my private repos just fine, so it seems like it was just easier to clear it out than to deal with RBAC at that level.

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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by whym on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:16PM (#31036014)

I don't think any fork was deleted. 3.5k forks as of now vs 3.4k forks in January: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129022012/https://github.co...

Many people won't notice some of their stars having disappeared, but many would be surprised to see their forks deleted without their consent, especially those that are not merely a mirror. People can have diverged forks after adding substantial changes without feeding them back to the original for a variety of reasons.

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Re:We lost 54k GitHub stars by kevinforrestcon on Friday April 15, 2022 @01:49AM (#31036951)

Then don't "do" the delete, when the users "do" the delete.

Pretend to do it, actually do it 24 hours later, and if they "undo" the delete within that time frame, just remove it from the delete queue process.

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