Pick a slight variation on the name, look through the unmerged upstream PRs to find some "obviously good" ones (or to fix other deficiencies you noticed personally), merge them to your fork, and who knows ... your fork might become the next popular home of the project!
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ngxtop is also very useful for providing real-time metrics:
https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
Too bad the maintainer stopped responding to or accepting pull requests…lot of PRs open for 10 years, including mine
Pick a slight variation on the name, look through the unmerged upstream PRs to find some "obviously good" ones (or to fix other deficiencies you noticed personally), merge them to your fork, and who knows ... your fork might become the next popular home of the project!
Unless you're pushing to the same GitHub account / group, you don't even have to change the name.
Did you consider maintaining a fork? Because it looks nice indeed.