FROM 2,500 REQUESTS TO 24: REBUILDING STAR HISTORY WITHOUT THE STARGAZERS

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

GitHub rebuilt its star-history API to return up to 30 weeks of daily counts in one request. Maintainers can track a project's momentum without exposing stargazer identities, which could be scraped for spam or phishing. To avoid simply shifting the cost to count queries, the endpoint filters stars by time before counting, reducing database work.