active-forks VS active-forks-extension

Compare active-forks vs active-forks-extension and see what are their differences.

active-forks

Find active github forks of a repo https://git.io/vSnrC (by techgaun)

active-forks-extension

Shows active forks with one click away. (by ridvanaltun)
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active-forks active-forks-extension
18 1
2,246 8
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1.8 0.0
11 months ago over 1 year ago
JavaScript TypeScript
- MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

active-forks

Posts with mentions or reviews of active-forks. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
  • Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Aug 2023
    2. accessing an app running on a windows through rdp, either as a full desktop or as a standalone window.[1] OK granted you are still using windows in that case, in the background, but you can do that only sporadically by launching a cloud windows vm instance for the small amount of time in a year you definitely need that dirty OS for personnal use.

    Obviously YMMV but the barrier is mostly psychological imho.

    [1] I think there was a project to facilitate that for office, adobe applications called winapps, see the different active forks here:

    https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html#Fmstrat/w...

    there is also this:

  • Urgent!! -- Using YT-DLP in-place of Zoomdl
    1 project | /r/youtubedl | 22 May 2023
  • Is there a way I can check the history "state" from all existing forks of a repo?
    1 project | /r/github | 26 Jan 2023
    I know about https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks, however this "only" shows the time of last activity which is not too bad, but not exactly what I'd like to have, since this provides no indication on the (possible) progress of the project (if one could measure progress in units of commits)...
  • Is Quil moving forward?
    6 projects | /r/Clojure | 21 Jan 2023
  • How to see list of *active* forks?
    2 projects | /r/github | 1 Dec 2022
    I stumbled upon this tool: https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks. But it didn't help, it didn't work on my repo.
  • Self-hosted in the cloud - What are your top apps?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 4 Nov 2022
    It is abandoned for 4 years, found most active fork(nice tool) of this, which is up to date and have cutting edge tools awesome-foss/awesome-sysadmin
  • Here's how to view active github forks of stable diffusion
    1 project | /r/StableDiffusion | 1 Sep 2022
    Chrome: Bookmark any page > Click More > (change name) and paste code from https://github.com/techgaun/active-forks into URL section > Save
  • SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2022
    mentat was archived by mozilla back in 2017, but there are a bunch of forks. Because github is dumb and has a terrible interface for exploring forks [0], I used the Active GitHub Forks tool [1] that helped to find:

    qpdb/mentat [2] seems to be the largest (+131 commits) and most recently modified (May this year) fork of mozilla/mentat.

    [0]: https://github.com/mozilla/mentat/network/members - Seriously, how am I supposed to use this? Hundreds of entries, but no counts for stars, contributors, or commits, no details about recent commits. Just click every one?

    [1]: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

    [2]: https://github.com/qpdb/mentat

  • Find all forks for any GitHub repo
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Jul 2022
  • Sshfs Is Orphaned
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jun 2022
    Yeah, there is this tool: https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

    I'm really surprised Github doesn't leverage their data for better discovery. Instead you get forks that are second-class citizens and should never be used for active development. For example, they don't get watched by default and their code is not searchable.

active-forks-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of active-forks-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-23.
  • Finding Active Forks in GitHub
    2 projects | dev.to | 23 Jun 2021
    You can use this tool with the web extension (for Firefox, Chrome or Edge). The extension is a open source project, you can check from here.

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