Distinguish forks related to new project branches, from ones inherent to Pull Requests

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Hi everyone!

Recently I've tried to find some search filter to find out which forks of a project were created to continue the development aside of the original one, discarding forks that were created just for Pull requests.

A practical example:

• There's a project built with Electron, and I was wondering if any of it's 892 fork(ers), tried to port the application to another framework (let's say React native.
• I've applied some filters to the results, to find the most active projects: only one had a note in the Readme file, saying what changed in that particular fork.
• The other forks that I've checked had a Readme file identical to the original project
• Commits must be checked to find out the difference

Is any similar feature already available?

If not, what about implementing a new feature to make this distinction easier?
Probably a new search filter would be enough: "forks mentioned in a PR".
It would be even better with the possibility to highlight forks where the "About" message and/or the Readme file content differs from the original project.

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