Bookmarks take a star turn
The private Save button is gone. Every saved commit is a star now, and the Saved page has become Starred, newest first.
Top storyTook the lead from Tombstones lose their last words #782. The site replaces the private Save button with a star, converting old saves into public stars that count toward totals and show who starred each commit. Held off 8 challengers since.
Open any commit and the little bookmark beside the copy-link button has vanished. The star does both jobs now. Click it and the count ticks up by one. Click it again to take the star back. Your old saves are waiting behind your avatar, on a page headed Starred, with the most recently saved commit on top.
brendt built it. The saved table is dropped, and a migration copies all of it into stars, keeping the date you saved each commit and skipping ones you had already starred so their original star date stays put. The page loads 20 commits at a time and is labelled Only you.
One catch. A save used to be private. Each converted one is a real star now, so it counts toward the commit's public star total, and the author can open the who-starred list and find your name on it. Nobody gets a notification for the converted stars, but they can see them.
Key files · #811
- database/
migrations/ 2026_10_20_000001_convert_bookmarks_to_stars.php - database/
migrations/ 2026_10_20_000002_drop_bookmarks_table.php - app/
Queries/ StarredCommitsQuery.php - app/
Http/ StarredCommitController.phpControllers/ - app/
Http/ StarredCommitController.phpControllers/ Api/ - resources/
js/ index.tsxpages/ starred/ - resources/
js/ commit-star-button.tsxcomponents/ - routes/
api.php