Can’t imagine using my system without this.

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    3 months ago

    I doubt that amount of stars can be achieved naturally in this short time, especially from a developer previously unknown.
    the program is certainly not used by likehappy common people, this would seem complicated and scare them away

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      3 months ago

      To be fair this is a terminal file manager… only a certain kind of person will be interested in the first place, and those people are likely to be more inclined to leave a star on GitHub.

      Personally I believe the stars were achieved naturally but of course there’s no way to know and it never hurts to be skeptical.

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        3 months ago

        To be fair this is a terminal file manager… only a certain kind of person will be interested in the first place,

        that’s the point

        and those people are likely to be more inclined to leave a star on GitHub.

        I don’t see that connection. But you know what, here is an example.

        Broot is a similar program. It has been there for longer, has been loved by many, yet it has fewer stars.
        If I would know more of those like this, I would probably have more examples.

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          3 days ago

          Realised I never responded to this - I’ll hold the L on that reasoning, didn’t think that through. I grant that you may be right about the stars, but I’m still doubtful due to my anecdotal experience of seeing a lot of activity around the repo + discord server from 4k stars to over 10k (while I was following it semi-closely). Entirely possible though, of course.