The issue has been closed
GitHub doesn't show forks by default when searching, this is fine most of the time, but it often leads to notable forks being ignored.
<details>
<summary>Example</summary>
</details>
Notice in the example, how denolib/awesome-deno isn't shown by default even it has plenty of stars.
There are existing solutions to this problem such as Lovely forks, but we can solve this from another aspect. When a user sorts the search result by stars, we can append fork:true automatically so notable forks show up in the search result by default.
This feature should appear on all https://github.com/search?s=stars&type=Repositories URL.
I'm conflicted about this because those projects deserve more visibility but fork:true often doubles the result count while almost never really affecting your search; it just makes it seem like there's a lot of choice but then you end up in the long fork-only tail as you go through the pages.
I really wish GitHub had an official "meaningful fork" state. They even reinvented forking as "Repository templates" but forks are still hidden.
Given how forks are treated by GitHub, I’m hesitant to always include forks in search results, which in the vast majority of times it just adds noice.
I advice suggesting to GitHub to differentiate meaningful forks from PR-only
I know this is closed, but please let me confirm it's not a misunderstanding:
always include forks in search results
Not always, just when the user choose to sort by most stars. This is stated in the title and the description from the beginning.
Alternatively, we can add a toggle for showing forks in the search page. I'm pretty sure lots of people doesn't know the fork: true trick so this is still useful while being less aggressive.
That said, if this should be a script/extension of itself, I'm happy to make one.
Yeah I missed that part. I think it’d make sense
IssueHunt