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		SwellJoe on June 27, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: How big does an open-source project need t... Our project has 295 stars and 1+ million installs. Stars is definitely not a reliable indicator.

to3m on June 27, 2015 [–]

Don't know how common it is but I for one use the starring function to tag projects that I'm not using! This is so I've got a note of it to look at later.

For projects I'm actively using, I'll either have a fork, or just a clone of the repo locally.

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