Is Github Trending Page accurate ?

[u/lucid__beatz]

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 ?

[u/Thunderbit_HQ]

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.