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tedmiston on July 18, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Cinc – GitHub for recipes

> There should be a process for a fork of a recipe being able to explain why it is better than the original, and have the fork be able to be voted on

That'd be a nice edition to GitHub's forks page. Over there star count might be the best proxy.

melicerte on July 19, 2017 [–]

I though the README.md and project stars was there for that precise reason. Am I wrong ?

tedmiston on July 19, 2017 | [–]

On source repos, you're right. On forked repos, people often don't change the readme, and to see star repo counts of forks requires opening each repo individually.

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