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>>kaeruc+(OP)
I'm surprised that Github stars are valuable enough to buy. Personally I never look at the star count because even if they were legit, they don't really tell me anything more useful than I get from looking at other things in the repo.

I tend to check the age difference between the earliest and latest commits because that lets me be sure it's not a project that someone spent a couple weeks coding up, dropped on github, and then forgot about. I'll also check the issues on there. I'm looking for more closed issues than open ones, but I'll also quickly scan over them to get a rough idea of how many are truly meaningful issues. I also get signals from the readme and docs. It's not a hard pass if there's issues with those, but it's certainly helpful to my opinion if they exist and are both clear and detailed.

>>ziml77+Kz
Closed issues dont mean anything though... a lot of maintainers bulk close hundered of issues as "nofix", "no activity after 3 months", and so on. Just sweeping them under the rug. And many of them pride themselves with the 0 opened issues like it mean something. Any software in the world can have 0 issues if they played this game.

So unless you are really well versed in the project and spent some time following it, stars actually might be a better indicator of the project quality and reputation.