[_madmax_]

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[LorenDB]

1.5k forks doesn't necessarily translate to 1.5k active forks. The vast majority of those forks are likely one-offs: the forker added a commit, submitted a pull request, and forgot about it.

[__s]

I've noticed a lot of people fork repos & don't touch them at all

Not sure if it's their way of starring, or they want to make their profile look good to recruiters, or they want to create a copy they control for use as a dependency

[WatchDog]

I mean, this fork has 2 commits, made an hour ago. Meanwhile, as other people have pointed out, there are already other quite active forks.

[ape4]

They're also implicitly promising to do a bunch of work in the future

[pil0u]

> But thank you for pressing a button.

Why the passive-aggressive tone? Especially when OP shows explicit enthusiasm in making his fork active and valuable for the community.

What is bothering you with OP's endeavour that you need to make him feel bad about it?

[_madmax_]

If their actions spoke louder than their words I would actually be interested. But that's what they did didnt they ? They pressed a button and they've posted it on HN. They actually did more to publish the button pressing than they did to keep the repo alive.

So yeah, pardon my lack of enthusiasm towards someone who says stuff.