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GitHub part is so flawed... because FreeCodeCamp inflate their popularity by requiring during onboarding for the user to star their repository yet keeping them at the top. It's like if I told everyone to vote up my Hacker News posts... and gave them the link to do it and GitHub has no remedy for that inflation.

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This is why we recently retired FreeCodeCamp from Changelog Nightly[^1]. It was in the Top Starred list each and every night for months on end. Impressive, but not very interesting.

[1]: https://changelog.com/recent-improvements-to-changelog-night...

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