THIS.
The new algorithm is not only horrendous but SUPER FLAWED!
Here is what happened.
After receiving 900+ stars within a week of launch - we never make it to 'Trending' weekly or monthly!! We were their trending for 3 days. Then all of a sudden we are gone. The rest of the repos which were trending with us with as little as 50 stars are in weekly/monthly trending!!!
Can you please help explain this @Github ?
When contacted Github support about this flaw - the reply was short (they dont wanna reveal their buggy algorithm! I was asking to look at the problem not to defend their solution)
Stars not only tell how cool a open source project is but also makes the new open source developers produce valuable work without next to nothing in return.
Just taking out this small dopamine rush translates to this - a good company (Github) was acquired by an old-enterprise.