Repository homepage shows "No contributors", but graph and REST API include contributors (openhachimi/HachiShifter)

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Repository homepage shows "No contributors", but graph and REST API include contributors (openhachimi/HachiShifter)

Summary

The Contributors section on https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter shows No contributors, although both the contributor graph data and the REST contributors API return contributor records, including my account, AT-15A. Please investigate the repository homepage sidebar's contributor data/index.

Repository: https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter
Default branch: dev
Repository type: public fork of https://github.com/ARounder-183/HiFiShifter
Affected account: AT-15A

Steps to reproduce

1. Open the repository homepage with the default dev branch selected.
2. Inspect the Contributors section in the right sidebar: it displays "No contributors".
3. Open https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter/graphs/contributors or query the endpoints below: contributor records are present.

Expected: the homepage should display contributors consistently with the repository's contributor records.
Actual: the sidebar reports zero contributors, including omitting all other contributors, not just my account.

Diagnostic evidence

Observed on 2026-10-30, approximately 14:19 UTC (22:19 Asia/Shanghai), and reproduced on repeated requests.

Endpoint	HTTP status	Result
https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter/_sidebar	200	contributorCount: 0, contributors: []
https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter/graphs/contributors-data	200	11 records; includes AT-15A with total: 3
https://api.github.com/repos/openhachimi/HachiShifter/contributors?per_page=100	200	10 named users; includes AT-15A with contributions: 3
https://api.github.com/repos/openhachimi/HachiShifter/stats/contributors	202	{} at the time of the request; background statistics were not yet returned

Sidebar response excerpt:

{
  "contributorCount": 0,
  "contributors": [],
  "contributorsPath": "/openhachimi/HachiShifter/graphs/contributors"
}

Graph response excerpt:

{
  "total": 3,
  "author": {"id": 306784538, "login": "AT-15A", "path": "/AT-15A"}
}

REST contributors response excerpt:

{"login": "AT-15A", "contributions": 3}

GitHub request IDs from a diagnostic request pair:

• Sidebar: 4DC0:A7882:2B076:3FA16:6AE4A768
• Graph data: 4DCA:26D7FE:299FA:3DF2D:6AE4A769

The graph/API totals can legitimately differ (for example, merge commits and bot records); this report concerns the homepage's zero contributors, not those total differences.

My default-branch commits are already attributed to AT-15A, for example:

• openhachimi/HachiShifter@cb4bccb
• openhachimi/HachiShifter@9946569
• openhachimi/HachiShifter@340410c

Reproduction commands

curl -sS -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter/_sidebar
curl -sS -H 'Accept: application/json' -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' https://github.com/openhachimi/HachiShifter/graphs/contributors-data
curl -sS https://api.github.com/repos/openhachimi/HachiShifter/contributors?per_page=100

Screenshot

Attached: contributors-sidebar.png, showing the repository homepage with the dev branch selected and the right-side Contributors section displaying "No contributors".

Related report and request

A similar report exists at https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/209776. I cannot confirm whether the internal cause is the same. Please check whether the sidebar contributor index/cache needs repair or rebuilding, and advise on a supported remedy. No branch history or author identities were changed to attempt a workaround.

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[Sagargupta16]

Nothing in the repository needs repair, and this is not a per-repo index fault: the homepage sidebar says "No contributors" on every fork. I checked 28 forks on 30 October, the other 9 forks of ARounder-183/HiFiShifter, 8 of my own, and the 10 most-starred forks on GitHub (base/chains, AlexeyAB/darknet, google/dagger and so on). _sidebar returns contributorCount: 0 for all of them, while the parent HiFiShifter returns 10 and non-fork repositories return their counts. The contributors graph and the REST endpoint are unaffected, which is exactly the split you measured. I did not find a docs page that states this, but the behaviour is uniform. The hermes-agent report added to 209776 on 30 October is a different case: a non-fork with about 60,000 commits, past the 10,000-commit limit of the contributors graph.

So no cache rebuild will change openhachimi/HachiShifter while it is a fork. The one thing in the owners' control is Settings > General > Danger Zone > "Leave fork network", which turns it into a standalone repository. That option is self-serve when the fork is public, under 1 GB and has no child forks; HachiShifter is 289 MB with 0 forks, so it qualifies. It is permanent: the fork link, issues, PRs, stars and watchers are lost, commits stay (https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/how-tos/work-with-forks/detaching-a-fork). With 230 commits of its own on dev that may be worth it to the maintainers; if not, adding your data to 209776 is the right place for the feedback.