[throwaway28731]

> How do you discover a project that may be hosted anywhere on the dozens of independent forges out there?

Word of mouth. Package managers. Search engines. Your LLM of choice.

Does anyone seriously use GitHub search to discover new projects?

[goku12]

Word of mouth: What if it's just some random script a guy created in a weekend? I have my code used by others in such a manner.

Package managers: Same problem as above. You missed the point of free software.

Search engines: They do a disastrous job of indexing anything on a forge. You might as well yell at the clouds instead.

LLM of choice: I'm not taking this seriously.

> Does anyone seriously use GitHub search to discover new projects?

I don't even understand the point of such questions. None of the solutions you proposed are any better solving what I described than the insufficient method I wrote about.