# GitHub Star History - Nice to know

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-star-history-nice-to-know/235612
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [August 9, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-star-history-nice-to-know/235612 "2022-08-09T14:51:44Z")
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### Author: ![EricGT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f1d935/32.png) [@EricGT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/EricGT)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2022, 2:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/github-star-history-nice-to-know/235612/1 "2022-08-09T14:51:44Z")

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One way to show appreciation for open source software is to give it a star on the repository page.

For Discourse

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse](https://github.com/discourse/discourse)

After a while one may wonder what is the number of stars over time, for that there is

> **[GitHub Star History](https://www.star-history.com/)**
>
> View and compare GitHub star history graph of open source projects.

[![Star History Chart](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/e/6/5e6c8687503adf6f28b44e975d803fb3c17a95ab.svg)](https://star-history.com/#discourse/discourse&Date)

Note:  
The embedded link above will show the graph with the line in the preview but when I save the page the line disappears. Here is what it really does look like (png image instead of link).

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/5/e/0/5e0d2c9be2431c40b4acb2f548dd0ba4ed22b0d0.png)

Enjoy! 🙂