QOvery Engine: We lost 3800 stars on GitHub

Are Stars even relevant though? I don’t understand why people are suddenly so concerned about them. Stars are neither a review nor an endorsement. No one looks at the list of “top starred repositories” and is surprised by the results—-let alone finds something new.

Also, all the People I know that actually care about stars seem to be folks who don’t actually interact with GitHub. My non-technical cofounder for my last startup was obsessed with them ans I’ve met tons of VCS who talk about star count for their developer tools.

> I am sure Github can do something about that, but they don't want to bother

I mean... Github already answered on this one. They have no tooling for that. He wants burn engineers time to fiddle with database and backups for unimportant reasons? Because someone made a mistake without thinking about consequences? Good luck with that.

Docs mention about forks being detached, but not stars: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-reposi...

And if you leaked something to the net, what are the chances are that it hasn't already been indexed/archived/pulled/seen by someone? Moreso by bad actors that probably looks for this stuff proactively.

> We lost 3800 stars on Github in 1 click

Last time I checked changing repository visibility required confirmation and manually typing in the name of the repository to confirm. So it's not exactly "one click".

I also just reviewed the message being shown, it does state that stars are lost:

> You will permanently lose: All stars and watchers of this repository.

A screenshot is at https://i.imgur.com/eGNROtG.png.

Crazy! Good learning for everyone, thanks for sharing!