I agree that more efforts should be put into making forks purpose and activity more visible and comparable. For me the GitHub network graph is invaluable when

I agree that more efforts should be put into making forks purpose and activity more visible and comparable. For me the GitHub network graph is invaluable when it comes to assessing forks activity and their potential usefulness. Very often my first action after coming across a fork is to navigate to the parent repository, but the very second one is clicking on "show me the fork graph". The network graph, while still having it's flaws, is a tremendous advantage over Bitbucket and provides some overview on where currently the development is happening and what people are working on.