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solardev
Neat! There's something pretty satisfying about the animation :)

I wish I could tune the video duration and make the ones with 100k+ stars go on fooooooooorever, maybe also with a (compressed) timeline that shows roughly when "batches" of likes happen. Like when you fast forward through a YouTube live recording with the emoji

scastiel
Haha I am not sure it would be that nice to have a video that lasts 2 minutes to display GitHub stars ;)
solardev
You never know! Maybe there'll be constellations among them and a subculture of Github astronomers will develop
askiiart
Just make sure not to confuse them with the GitHub astrologers, they might get upset.
matkoniecz
Maybe add to readme example of output? Either gif/mp4 with segment of animation?
scastiel
Yes I’ll add more information about the project: example output, how it works, tech stack, etc.
srbhr
Great work and cool-looking animation. Is there a way to extend the duration from 0 to current stars?
scastiel
Yes, I just changed it, makes more sense :)
broast
The "404" animation is great
quickthrower2
Funny! Nice idea.

If this were done as an animated SVG, then it would be quite easy to have this embedded so it is always up to date.

scastiel
Indeed that would be nice, but the main use case I had in mind is about sharing on social media, and as far as I know they don’t support animated SVG…
quickthrower2
That is a good point. I thought this was for embedding on a README
flashback2199
Why would someone need an animation of a repo's GitHub stars? Showing off in a slide in a tech talk?
scastiel
Yes, or on Twitter, LinkedIn…
hosseinyazdii
Simple and intuitive. Love the scrolling animation of the user profiles. I guess if it were slightly slower, perhaps it would be better.