Refined-github: Display "dependents" at top of repos, next to "stars"

[TehShrike]

https://twitter.com/brianleroux/status/952567146185289729

Personally, I think "number of direct dependents" is more likely to be useful than "number of stars". I think it would be good to include at the top of the repo next to watch/star.

Thoughts?

[fregante]

Refined GitHub has zero dependents, does that make it useless? 😋

That said, it may be useful, my only concern is that it might be a bit long and cause the repo name to wrap

[hkdobrev]

This feature is supported by too few languages at the moment to be useful to me. Also, as @bfred-it said, non-libraries would never have dependents.

[TehShrike]

Github's dependency detection still seems very young. Even in languages where it is supported, I've seen times where it didn't show any dependents.

However, I expect it will get better.

It's already working in enough places to be useful to me more often than watch/fork counts.

[sindresorhus]

Github's dependency detection still seems very young. Even in languages where it is supported, I've seen times where it didn't show any dependents.

This comment was a year ago and the situation has not improved. I don't think the dependents feature is good enough for us to prominently display it with stars.

[TehShrike]

For what repos is it inconsistent?

My experience is all with JS, and the dependency tracking has been 100% every time I've checked it for many months now.

Are there some non-JS languages where it still has issues?

[fregante]

https://twitter.com/github/status/1131468413983961088

I guess that at some point we can drop the "Used by" text from the button