{"repo":"musically-ut/lovely-forks","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks","clone":"git clone https://github.com/musically-ut/lovely-forks.git","description":"💚 🍴 Show notable forks of GitHub repositories under their names.","language":"JavaScript","stars":669,"topics":["stars","addon","github","chrome-extension","firefox-addon","firefox-extension","github-forks","forks-insight","forks"],"license":"MPL-2.0","category":"dev-tools","readme_excerpt":"Lovely forks Firefox addon Chrome extension Can also be installed on Opera through the Opera Chrome-extension addon . ---- An addon to help you notice notable forks of a GitHub project. Sometimes on GitHub, projects are abandoned by the original authors and the development continues on a fork. However, the original repository is seldom updated to inform newcomers of that fact. I have often wasted effort on making a pull-request or installing old buggy versions of projects when the community had already moved to a fork. To make matters worse, the old projects usually have higher search-engine traffic and a lot more stars than the forks. This makes the forks even harder to find. This addon tries to remedy that by adding a subscript under the name of the repository on the GitHub page of the project with a link to the most notable fork (i.e. the fork with the most stars and at least one star), if such a fork exists. Also, if the fork is more recent than the upstream, a flame icon is shown next to it. These are called flamey forks as suggested by Mottie. Use cases The tipsy plugin hasn't been updated since 2012 and there is a community supported fork which has merged in all the PRs. However, the alternative only has 27 stars versus the 1,888 stars of the original project (at the time of writing): Similarly, the project slate was last updated in 2013 and has about 5,000 stars. The currently active fork only has 185 stars (at the time of writing): In some cases, a new flavour of the","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/musically-ut","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/musically-ut/lovely-forks/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}