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GitHub search is not very good, i.e. it is not possible to order the results. Is there an alternative searching facility to search github?
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Thanks, but i was hoping for a website that improved the search using github's api?
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Ok, i have put a proof of concept together, let me know what you think.

It will allow simple sorting of all the main columns, forks, watchers, activity, project name etc...
http://bit.ly/i0N7ST
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jaoudestudios wrote:Ok, i have put a proof of concept together, let me know what you think.
Seems good and surprisingly fast. There are some improvements I'd suggest: make column headers clickable and sort by clicked column, make search results bookmarkable by actually exposing search request in the address bar.
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Thanks for the ideas, i have added them to the next release on github project issue tracker https://github.com/eddiejaoude/github-a ... state=open. There are more ideas added, like new project notifier etc..

Hopefully it will be useful to other developers.
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