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Comment by toddsifleet | Hacker News Reader

I made something similar to this but used bubble charts: http://www.toddsifleet.com/projects/github-forks

Much more useful!

Show some of the details sooner if possible (hover?) and you've pretty much solved the problem.

I will add a better metric than simply the stars this week end. Do you think of something you really want to have for a metric?

Thanks for following up; I'm not the perfect person to ask but it would make sense to allow all the metrics to be specified as sort criteria. Here are a few ideas:

  * number of forks
  * days since last commit
  * ratio of open to closed issues
  * days since commiter response to issue

Definitely copy the default / demo repo implemented by the OP too.

Thanks! If you click on a bubble you get a pop up with more info.

Nice one too!:)

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