More detailed fork list

[TheLastZombie]

Sometimes, when a reasonably popular (but no longer updated) module no longer works properly, I check the list to see if anyone has got it working again. I usually look for forks which, in turn, have forks themselves to determine the most popular ones.

A more detailed list would make this a lot easier. Take GitHub's dependency graph for example:

In addition to star and fork counts, the /forks API endpoint also returns when the repo was last updated etc.

In addition to that, one could add a sort button at the top, which would allow for sorting all forks alphabetically (GitHub default), by the most recent commit or by the most stars/forks.

Example URL: https://github.com/github/fetch/network/members

[fregante]

The Network page is already sorted by most recently-committed https://github.com/github/fetch/network

[fregante]

There’s also the Lovely Forks plugin that just shows the single most-starred fork if it’s more recent than the current repo.

https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks

You could ask them to show more forks, perhaps the 10 most starred forks, on the page you suggested.

Only sorting usually isn’t useful because most forks are useless anyway.

[TheLastZombie]

Tried Lovely Forks for the past few days and it works really well for my case, thanks for the link. Closing this now.

[FranklinYu]

I was almost submitting similar feature request for sorting forks, before GitHub’s related issues guided me here. I like the extension Lovely Forks; would it make sense to be mentioned in “Related” section?

[fregante]

would it make sense to be mentioned in “Related” section?

We can't mention them all. There are already lists for that:
https://github.com/collections/github-browser-extensions

[FranklinYu]

Then how about mentioning this list in the “Related” section? I wasn’t aware of this list.

[fregante]

We can't mention them all. There are already lists for that:
https://www.google.com/search?q=list+of+browser+extensions+for+github