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    At the risk of blatant self-advertising, I wrote a small Firefox/Chrome plugin to tell me if the project had any notable forks, called lovely-forks. It has helped me more than once in figuring out whether a project had been forked and development is continuing on the fork while the upstream stays dormant. Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 10:52
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    @musically_ut Self promotion or not, very cool! I'm using it now. Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 14:50
  • (* warm fuzzy feelings *) If you liked this, then you may be interested in other extensions which improve one's Github experience: github.com/stefanbuck/awesome-browser-extensions-for-github :) Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 21:21
  • Sometimes you just have to step on toes... Commented Mar 10, 2017 at 2:45
  • Hopefully, isgitprojectactive.info can be helpful – it checks ratio of contributions over time and answers the question of the project is actually active or not:) Commented Dec 1, 2023 at 17:59