Pinning and stars

Pins and stars are two separate concepts that both look like favoriting. Don't mix them up:

• A pin is private. It puts a project in your Pinned view so you can find it quickly. Nobody else sees it.
• A star is public. It's like an upvote: anyone visiting the project sees the star count. The platform uses stars to rank popular projects and to populate the Stars tab on user profiles.

Pinning a project

Pinning works on any project you can see, your own, a teammate's, or someone else's public project.

From the projects list:

• Hover a project card and click the pin icon in the action row at the bottom of the card.
• The card immediately shows as pinned. The same project now appears in Pinned (left sidebar of the projects list).

From the project page:

• The same pin icon lives in the project header's action row. Clicking it has the same effect.

Click the pin icon again to unpin.

What the Pinned view looks like

Open the Projects list and click Pinned in the left sidebar. It shows the same project cards as the Recent view, scoped to projects you've pinned.

When empty: No pinned projects. Pin your favorite projects to see them here.

Practical uses for pinning

• The 2–3 projects you're actively shipping this sprint.
• A reference project you frequently copy snippets from.
• A teaching template you reuse with new hires or students.

Starring a project

Starring is only available on public projects. (Private projects don't have a star count because they aren't discoverable.)

From a project card or the project page: click the star icon ☆. The icon fills in, the count increments, and the platform records that you've starred the project.

Click again to unstar.

Where stars show up

• On the project card in the projects list: count next to the star icon.
• On the project page header: count next to the star button.
• On your profile's Stars tab: every project you've starred, in reverse chronological order.
• In dashboard activity feeds: popular projects gain visibility as they accumulate stars.

Practical uses for starring

• Bookmarking public projects you might want to fork later.
• Showing appreciation for community work.
• Letting the platform learn your tastes for recommendations (when the Recommended feed filter ships).

Pin vs star at a glance

Where to next

• See your pinned projects → open Projects from the dashboard, then click Pinned in the left sidebar.
• See your starred projects → Your user profile → Stars tab.
• Make your own project public → Visibility and sharing.