I am surprised so many people treat losing stars as "dangerous": I can certainly emphatize with the designer coming up with this pop-up while looking at a sample project with 12 stars.
Considering this project was out of ordinary in having 54k stars (article mentions being in top 80), they should not be surprised that their case is not top of mind.
Sure, it would be nice to highlight the most destructive of actions, but they already had to type out full project path as confirmation.
I do believe it would be better if Github allowed restoring data in the next few days (soft deletes ftw) once they hit this issue themselves in the past.
And Github support should have recognized that this project is a special, out of ordinary project, and afforded it some engineering time to restore everything.
> I am surprised so many people treat losing stars as "dangerous": I can certainly emphatize with the designer coming up with this pop-up while looking at a sample project with 12 stars.
Lots and lots of websites and companies use the number of stargazers as a strangely important metric for success, so losing them can be really bad.
Considering this project was out of ordinary in having 54k stars (article mentions being in top 80), they should not be surprised that their case is not top of mind.
Sure, it would be nice to highlight the most destructive of actions, but they already had to type out full project path as confirmation.
I do believe it would be better if Github allowed restoring data in the next few days (soft deletes ftw) once they hit this issue themselves in the past.
And Github support should have recognized that this project is a special, out of ordinary project, and afforded it some engineering time to restore everything.