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Add forks information to the explore pages

Problem to solve

Add forks information to the explore pages.

Further details

All repositories get the stars numbers displayed on the explore page. Adding the numbers of forks alongside the stars would add useful information for the visitors. A highly starred and forked repo is strong, and combining these information better represent the health of a repo.

Currently, whoever wants to have the forks information without being logged in must follow the repo link and add /forks, e.g. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/forks. As this information is not private, let's make it more visible.

Proposal

This feature request include 2 potential developments:

  1. Add the forks number alongside the stars number (the <i class="fa fa-code-fork" aria-hidden="true"></i> should be used):
    gitlab-forks
  2. As for the Most stars menu, a similar one entitled "Most forks" could be added:
    most-forks

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

Something similar to the images attached above would be a good achievment.

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