Re:So, I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, s...
by klabb3 on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:42AM
(#36152747)
Assuming the issues aren’t also hijacked it’s pretty easy to do your own sanity check of a project. Takes no more than a few minutes of archeology in the code and issue tracker.
Also, Twitter has a fomo/cool bias which is really terrible for software imo. Boring is usually better.
Re:So, I went down the rabbit hole of buying GitHub Stars, s...
by yCombLinks on Thursday June 01, 2023 @11:51AM
(#36152887)
I'd rather just do without than having a "community" on twitter.
As it gets easier and cheaper to run LLM-based bots, I wonder how long this approach will keep working. Devs in mid-to-large companies should have colleagues they can ask directly, but smaller startups might be vulnerable to being artificially swayed towards specific options.