Zed Shaw: Launchpad vs. Github/SysAdmin vs. Coder
It's definitely annoying when you are trying to find the "canonical" fork of a project on Github, but it's not THAT hard to just look under the project name and click on the "forked from xyz/project" link (projects rarely go more than a couple of forks deep), or in the worst case click on the network tab and look at the tree.<p><i>Edit: If it's a Ruby Gem, you can also look up the gem on rubygems.org and click the Homepage link.</i>