I went to work today and clicked On Github Trending and found that the first place was a project named Kui-Vue, which increased more than 1,000 star projects a day.
At first, I thought it was a UI framework opened by some big factory. After a closer look, I found it was a personal project, but there were very few issues and PR. I looked at online examples, but I didn’t find any highlights. This makes me feel particularly strange. What caused it to rise more than 1000 stars a day? As a non-big V, without the support of dachang halo, the daily rise of 1000 is a very rare thing.
So I took a closer look at the star users and found an interesting phenomenon! I’ll just take a snapshot here.
Did you see that? Most of them are users with no profile pictures, and we all know that. And then I’m going to click on each of these users one by one.
I don’t want to take more screenshots, I randomly in order to see several users are like this, did you find a common point, they are star QilinBaoleiji, CocoaDebug, FETopic. And it is: there are and only star these several projects. And the project has very few forks…
To sum up, we clicked on the project’s followers and checked out the latest 12 followers. They all followed four or five projects, and they all followed the same ones. What are the odds of that? What a coincidence! Can not help but make fun of it, this little brother to buy star or buy the lowest version, this zombie number is too low, a glance can see that there is something fishy, since the money, buy senior fans ah! . But it must have cost a lot of money…
In fact, as a personal project, the workload of this project is not small, and the author should have spent a lot of time and effort on this project, but the behavior of buying star is really a bit too much, and he even bought the first place in Github Trending, which is really unbearable (maybe he didn’t buy the star himself, What if his fans, welcome correction)
But the behavior of these fans is understandable. Without dachang support, he is not a big V net red, the project and a lot of competing products, it is quite difficult to promote, after all, there are too many wheels now. I spent time and energy to make something that I thought was good, but no one paid attention to it, and I felt frustrated. So you want to buy fans to make your project look better, or your resume look better when you go out for an interview?
As the number of Chinese programmers increases, star is becoming less and less valuable. After all, the population is small. It used to be a 1000 star project and I thought it was great, but now maybe Markdown wrote a little better, maybe a hundred.
Deno Issue was brushed before, deno issue was brushed in Chinese, how do you view the behavior of GitHub project to brush Star? “, and a variety of unknown reasons only Chinese readme. md strong list, many foreign users directly want to add a regional function, block China.
Open source is not easy, and line and cherish.
Net friend added a trend chart can refer to next.
Sep. 4 Supplementary note: The author of the project said that he did not buy star from Taobao. Please refer to V2EX for details
