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 are some considerations I don't know.<p>(Just met two "stargazer" links in the past 30 minutes: https://github.com/formkit/auto-animate/stargazers , https://github.com/payloadcms/payload/stargazers)
It's analytics. Google search brings up<p><a href="https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-our-github-stars/" rel="nofollow">https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/what-can-we-learn-from-ou...</a><p>"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."<p>Which links to<p><a href="https://github.com/spencerkimball/stargazers" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/spencerkimball/stargazers</a><p>"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."
>Just met two "stargazer" links in the past 30 minutes<p>Do you met those through the GitHub button shown on their homepage? The left part ("Star") will take you to the project's repo home, whereas the right part (number of people that starred project) will take you the stargazers page. It's kinda unintuitive since they appear like they perform an action but only the fork button does.