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What is the convention for giving positive feedback to FOSS projects on Github? Giving positive feedback on an issue thread adds noise for future people reading the thread.

Does Github have an issue type for praise? Do you attempt to get the authors email address and contact them directly? Do you star the repo? I'd like a quick way to show my appreciation throughout the day as I `yarn add` various packages...

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I think the conventional and also the most useful directions for the praise are your friends and the communities where it's relevant and where you are in good standing.

Otherwise it devolves to faceless testimonies and product reviews of questionable validity, which hold no inherent credibility to others.

GitHub recently introduced "Discussions". Issue-like threads basically. Whether they're acceptable for "praise" of the project varies from maintainer to maintainer I'd suppose.

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