>"The same goes for stars. If you’re one of those 54K people who’ve starred the repo any time in the past decade, the repo is no longer among your starred projects." //
This seems like bad design from a UX perspective. Projects I star are a characteristic of my account. If a project is made private, I still want to have the star in my account list; it feels almost like gaslighting to just remove a star.
> If a project is made private, I still want to have the star in my account list
You can’t star a private project, so by definition you can’t "keep" a star on a project that went from public to private. That’s not bad design, that’s a logical behavior.
I wasn't thinking the repo would be maintained beyond the title (and short description, maybe whole readme?) being in a list of starred repos, and maybe having something like "[now private]" or "[removed]" added.
If I know I starred a repo and then go back to it and it's no longer accessible, I want to see that I'm not going mad and have some information about why the repo is no longer accessible.
This seems like bad design from a UX perspective. Projects I star are a characteristic of my account. If a project is made private, I still want to have the star in my account list; it feels almost like gaslighting to just remove a star.