[djur]

Right, the entire point of GitHub forks is to make it easier to upstream your local changes to the original repository. If you have no interest in doing that you shouldn't use a fork.

[account42]

Which is pretty much the opposite of what fork used to mean before GitHub...

[slikrick]

you know you can fork dead and abandoned projects right?

[djur]

Sure, you can. It might not be a good idea in the long term.