Releases: emanuelef/daily-stars-explorer
v0.1.0
Major Features
🎨 Improved UI/UX Across All Views
- Complete redesign and modernization of the interface
- Consistent styling and better visual hierarchy
- Enhanced responsiveness across all view modes
- Improved chart readability with better formatting and thicker lines
- Large number formatting for better readability
📱 Dedicated Mobile View
- Optimized mobile experience for smartphones and tablets (only daily stars and hourly)
- Simplified interface tailored for touch interactions
📌 Pin Favorite Repositories
- Save your most-used repositories for quick access
- Pin/unpin repos directly from the search interface
- Pinned repositories persist across sessions using local storage
- Quick access bar displays your top pinned repos
- Available in both mobile and hourly views
🌙 Light Mode Option
- Toggle between dark and light themes
- Automatic detection of system preferences
- Smooth transitions between theme modes
- Consistent styling across all interface elements
🌍 Timezone Selection in Hourly View
- Select your preferred timezone for hourly data
- View star activity in your local time context
- Persistent timezone selection across sessions
📢 GitHub Mentions Feed
- Track when repositories mention your project in issues, pull requests, and comments
- Visual markers on the timeline showing GitHub mentions
- Distinct color coding: Issues (🐛 orange), Pull Requests (🔧 purple), Comments (💬 blue)
- Quick access to mention details directly from the chart
Performance Improvements
- Increased timeout for fetching hourly data on very large repositories from 10 to 20 minutes
- Enhanced API stability for handling massive datasets
- Optimized context timeout handling
Technical Updates
- Updated Go dependencies:
- gofiber/fiber v2.52.10 → v2.52.11
- clipperhouse/uax29 v2.4.0 → v2.5.0
Release Date: February 8, 2026
Full Changelog: v0.0.8...v0.1.0
v0.0.8
This release brings granular insights into repository trends, new visualizations, and important backend improvements.
🌟 New Feature: Hourly Stars Chart
This is the highlight of the release! We’ve added a powerful new Stars by Hour chart that allows for much deeper analysis of repository traffic.
- Granular Visualization: Instead of just daily totals, you can now see exactly when stars are awarded down to the hour.
- Peak Insights: The dashboard now automatically calculates and displays:
- Peak Hour (UTC): The exact hour with the most activity.
- Peak Day: The specific date with the highest engagement.
- Best Hour(s): An average calculation to help you identify consistent high-engagement times.
- Dual-View Graph: The chart overlays "Hourly Stars" (bars) with "Total Stars" (line) for a complete picture of growth velocity.
🚀 Additional Features
- GH New Public Repos Chart: Added a new visualization to track GitHub new public repository trends.
🛠 Improvements & Refactoring
- Backend Refactoring: We performed a significant code refactor on the backend to improve maintainability and structure.
- Dependency Updates: All project dependencies have been updated to their latest secure versions.
🐛 Fixes
- Various Fixes: Addressed several minor bugs and UI glitches to ensure a smoother experience.
What's Changed
- Fix zoom compare by @emanuelef in #220
- Adding hourly stars view by @emanuelef in #222
- refactoring backend by @emanuelef in #224
Full Changelog: v0.0.7...v0.0.8
Contributors
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v0.0.7
✨ New Features & Improvements
- Hacker News & Reddit mentions: See which repositories have been discussed on Hacker News or Reddit in recent days.
- Releases feed in stars timeline: Added a feed showing the project’s releases plotted alongside its star history, giving more context to growth trends.
- Mobile-friendly access: Added a dedicated button to redirect users to a more mobile-optimized version of the site for easier browsing on small screens.
🛠️ Bug Fixes & Maintenance
- Fixed minor issues affecting data refresh for some repositories.
- Updated dependencies to the latest versions for improved security and performance.
v0.0.6
✨ New Features & Improvements
Simplified updates for cached repositories: When a repo has already been fetched and cached, the UI now updates the "remaining days" without re-fetching everything.
Autocomplete for cached repos: Added an autocomplete input to easily select repositories that have already been cached.
Quick access to recent data: New "Show Last 30 Days" button helps you quickly focus on recent star history.
Live daily star count: The current day's stars now update live using the total, reflecting the latest data each time the repo is requested.
🛠️ Maintenance
Updated project dependencies for improved security and stability.
Minor UI dependency updates.
📝 Discussion
For more background or to join the conversation, see Discussion #207.