This page is a quick-start FAQ for new and returning users. Use it to understand where to configure repositories, how to read analytics, which controls matter most across the app, and how the repository issues feature helps you inspect backlog health and recent issue activity.
Start by adding repositories in Repository Settings and updating your Profile. Then use Stargazer Overview and Subscriber Overview to monitor saved repositories. On each repository page, use the GitHub link, date controls, Normalize toggle, clickable charts, user-detail accordions, and Top Seen toggles to explore repository activity in more depth.
Welcome to GitGenius. Start by adding repositories in Repository Settings and updating your Profile. Then use Stargazer Overview and Subscriber Overview to monitor saved repositories. On each repository page, use the GitHub link, date controls, Normalize toggle, clickable charts, user-detail accordions, and Top Seen toggles to explore repository activity in more depth.Review stargazer activity across your saved repositories, sort the table, and monitor changes as the data refreshes.
Track watcher and subscriber activity for the repositories you save so you can compare audience trends over time.
Build and save your repository list, add repositories from the library, and manage the set of repos used throughout your dashboards.
Update your account details and preferences so your GitGenius workspace reflects how you want to use the app.
Explore ranked GitHub users with follower, repository, gist, and analytics data in card or table view.
Set the Number of Users field and press Load to change how many records are fetched.
Use Sort By to reorder by username, followers, repos, gists, and logged-in scoring metrics.
Toggle Card Layout to switch between compact cards and the table view.
Toggle Show Hireable Only to narrow the list to users who are open to opportunities.
Use Previous and Next pagination controls to move through result ranges.
Understand how GitGenius calculates activity, influence, GitGenius score, and user classifications.
Review the Overview, Data Sources, Core Metrics, and GitGenius Score sections to understand the model.
Use the score-scale and classification tables to interpret how users are categorized.
Reference the methodology page whenever you need context for influence, activity, or hireable boosts shown elsewhere in the app.
Open the repository on GitHub from the repo header.
Adjust the date window with the start date picker, day-range selector, and back/forward controls.
Use Normalize to smooth large spikes and make trend comparisons easier.
Click chart days to open Stargazer Details or Subscriber Details for first-seen and last-seen users.
Switch Top Seen views between Stargazers and Subscribers to compare related repositories.
If a repository is missing, request initialization directly from the repo route.
On each repository page, the Issue Activity summary gives you a fast snapshot of open issues, recent opened and closed counts, average open age, stale issues, top labels, and the most active issues from the last week.
Open a repository's Issues page to review the last 14 days of issue activity, weekly totals, and the current backlog in one place.
Use the explorer controls on each repository's /issues page to filter by state and label, search issue titles or bodies, and sort by updated date, created date, comment volume, reactions, or issue age.
Click any issue row to open the detail panel, where Overview shows core metadata, Timeline shows indexed events and comments, and History shows recent daily snapshots for that issue.
Where should I start? Begin with Repository Settings to save repositories, then use overview dashboards and repository pages to explore trends.
How do I understand user analytics? Visit Influential Users for ranked users and Scoring Methodology for the formulas and classification context behind GitGenius scores.
What can I do on a repository page? Use the date controls, normalize toggle, chart interactions, user-detail panels, and Top Seen switches to inspect activity from several angles.
What does the repository issues feature show? On repository pages, the Issue Activity summary highlights open issues, recent opened and closed counts, average open age, stale issue counts, top labels, and the most active issues from the last week. Use it as a fast backlog-health snapshot before drilling deeper.
What can I do on the full issues page?Open a repository's Issues page to review 14-day issue trends, see weekly totals, filter by state and label, search issue titles or bodies, and sort by recent updates, creation date, comment volume, reactions, or issue age.
How do issue details work? Click any issue row to open the detail panel. The Overview tab shows metadata, labels, counts, and the full description, the Timeline tab shows indexed issue events and comments, and the History tab shows recent daily snapshots so you can follow how the issue changed over time.
What if I cannot find a repository? Open the repo route directly and use the request flow to ask GitGenius to initialize it.
