Lovely forks

Show notable forks of GitHub projects.

What is Lovely forks?

'Lovely forks' is a Chrome extension designed to uncover notable forks of GitHub projects, particularly where the original projects are abandoned and development has shifted to a fork. It updates repository information to highlight more recent versions, thereby preventing wasted efforts on outdated or buggy versions. The extension identifies and provides a link to the most notable fork, typically the one with the most stars, on every Github project page.

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By: https://musicallyut.xyz

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.62 (13)

Version: 3.7.3 (Last updated: 2023-11-07)

Creation date: 2020-05-21

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Permissions:

storage

Host permissions:

*://github.com/*
*://api.github.com/*

Size: 967.68K

Email: ma*****@musicallyut.xyz

URLs: Website

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# 25790 ▼ 105

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#958 in Developer Tools ▼ 2

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Lovely forks (v3.7.3)

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Extension summary

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An extension to help you notice notable forks of GitHub projects.

Sometimes on GitHub, projects are abandoned by the original authors and the development continues on a fork. However, the original repository is often not updated to let new-comers see that. I have many times 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 extension tries to remedy that by adding a subscript under the name of the repository on the Github page of all projects with a link to the most notable fork (i.e. the fork with the most stars), if such a fork exists.

User reviews

i rarely make a comment on this webstore but this one deserve a 5 star. seriously it helps me update my favorite app on github that is already abandoned.

Lester Jan “Teryo” Teodoro, 2022-01-17

Excellent! Thanks for extension

Tema Smirnov, 2020-03-18

Hit or miss, mostly miss. I've found so far all the "Lovely" forks it's been suggesting are *years* more outdated than the one I'm looking at. I get that the extension can't magically create a maintained fork but if a fork was last updated in 2011 and the project I'm looking at was last committed early 2016 I'm probably not interested in the former.