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70k stars, 12k forks. I bet those forks have some good stuff in them.

• myky22 6y ago
  the more the merrier :)
• da39a3ee 6y ago
  Usually there are lots of forks on github because for some reason the Github UI has always led people to think that they should fork a repo even when they don't plan on contributing to it. This is also true of the "Fork me on Github" banner that has been around for years -- nearly all the people who click on it don't need to fork, they just want to leave a star or look at the README or something. Empirically I believe that for the majority of github users it is the case that the majority of "their repos" are forks with no added commits.
  • frou_dh 6y ago
    Yeah, "Fork" as brandished by GitHub Inc is really a misnomer. We already have a verb meaning to duplicate a git repo into your own space: Clone !! So that button action in GitHub's web UI is really "(Cloud) Clone".
    • gruez 6y ago
      I can imagine it getting confusing for beginners: "so start off by cloning this repo... no not using github, using git"
      • frou_dh 6y ago
        That's true and I know from experience that when teaching people about git, the distinction between git/GitHub can be hard to grasp. Personally though, I found it very helpful to understand that a GitHub repo is just another node on a graph, and isn't really a more grandiose thing than a node/repo that's on one's own hard drive.