We link to https://www.r-pkg.org/starred on https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table but the link appears to be broken.
It's a shame because data.table is ok on stars.
I've never understood this focus on downloads which is at the top of metacran page. Downloads are more a measure of number of package releases. After all, once you've downloaded a package, you can use it 100 times a day for 1 year, but you don't need to download it again unless there's a new version. Also I suspect there's a lot of systematic downloads that aren't really users downloading packages.
It's nice that stars is added to the mix anyway, but that doesn't seem to be on metacran at all now.