Trending page still links star counts to /stargazers, which now returns 404

[nikpivkin]

🏷️ Discussion Type

Bug

Body

Since access to /stargazers was restricted on June 30, 2026, the page returns 404 to everyone except a repository's admins and collaborators. The star count on the trending page is still a link to it, so clicking it lands the user on a 404 inside GitHub's own UI.

Steps to reproduce

1. Open https://github.com/trending.
2. Click the star icon with the number next to any repository, for example coder/coder.
3. https://github.com/coder/coder/stargazers opens and returns 404.

The same happens from the "Trending repositories" sidebar on the signed-in dashboard.

Notes

• Repository pages no longer contain any /stargazers link, so this looks like a spot missed by that same cleanup.
• The fork count on the same row links to /forks and still works. Only the star count is broken.

Suggested fix

Render the star count as plain text here too, the way repository pages already do.

Related

• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/201178
• https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/201209

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