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		munk-a on April 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We lost 54k GitHub stars Just FYI - you can star private repositories so it's not quite that simple. You'd need to determine if the starring aligns with permissions... but I think it's still relatively reasonable.

ncmncm on April 14, 2022 [–]

Ok, then have a separate button: "Delete all 54,000 stars on this repo", completely independent of public/private.

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