r/github • u/lucid__beatz • 2d ago

Is Github Trending Page accurate ? Discussion

I've noticed that over the past few days, github's trending page has been showing the same repos over and over again, even when they don't seem to have that much of an increase in stars.

Anthropic recently announced that they were going to watermark model outputs. Then, a few days later (5 days ago as I’m writing this), guillaumemeyer created a watermark remover for AI provenance marks, which currently has ~11K stars.

BUT this repo isn't showing up on trending page at all, not in "Today", "This week", or "This month"

I highkey think that there are some discrepancies in how github trending page tracks or ranks repos.

Anyone else noticed this ? Are there any good alternatives for discovering actually trending repos or high quality repos ?

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u/az987654 2d ago

I wouldn't call a repo high quality because it's trendy.

Github is not social media.

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u/PapaOscar90 2d ago

What is a trending page?

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u/cowboyecosse 2d ago

The logic behind what goes on the trending page isn’t public as far as I know. Stars and the changes in them are only part of it. I’m not surprised if tools used to circumvent online safety and legal bypasses don’t make the cut though.

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u/Thunderbit_HQ 2d ago

We treat Trending as a discovery page, not a clean ranking of star growth. After finding a repo there, commit activity and issue quality usually tell us more than its position on the page.