I just experienced the other side of this problem yesterday. I was checking out a job applicant who had a lot of repositories and I couldn't easily figure out which ones really mattered. Fortunately, he also had his own portfolio site. The github profile was effectively useless.
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I just experienced the other side of this problem yesterday. I was checking out a job applicant who had a lot of repositories and I couldn't easily figure out which ones really mattered. Fortunately, he also had his own portfolio site. The github profile was effectively useless.
"The github profile was effectively useless." - exactly!
Related to this, forks, imo, should always be sorted to be after original repos.
If you're curious what contributions a user has made to their forks, I wrote a simple that breaks down # of commits per fork e.g. http://github-contributions.herokuapp.com/cldwalker
That's pretty cool, thanks!
Please don't use Github profiles as a CV.