GitHub&#x27;s fork management is lacking, but as it is now, forks are a symbol of popularity, so authors have no incentive to prune them. Plus it would be like saying &quot;you&#x27;re not a real contributor&quot; to fans (which, while probably true, is still rude and not worth being a jerk about).<p>A simple first step would be to hide forks publicly that don&#x27;t have any commits since they were forked. But I think some people fork things because they think it&#x27;s like adding them to their resume (I can&#x27;t understand it) and they wouldn&#x27;t be happy.<p>The entire concept of &quot;forked from X&quot; is broken.