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I'm new to Github and just want to browse through repos to find interesting ones.
I want, say, all ruby repos with more than 100 followers. I go to advanced search and try "followers:100" and get only repos with EXACTLY 100 followers (4 at the moment).
That differs from what i expect to be default behavior - find repos with 100 or more followers (more like Stackoverflow search works).
I am quite frustrated, because I can't get what is expected to be basic search functionality from a very popular site, and that makes me think that I'm obviously not understanding something very simple (because I think it is not possible for Github not to have such functions).
So is there a way for me to get the desired result?

bizzz
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Update January 2013 (source: "A whole new code search")

followers:>100

(intervals are supported: followers:100..150)

Original answer (April 2011)

 followers:[100 TO *]

should do what you want: see your query with 100 or more followers.
(Note: the "TO" needs to be in uppercase)

(Source: New and Improved Search)

For example, we can search:

  • for people with a username fuzzily similar to ‘chacon’
  • who use Ruby as their primary language,
  • have at least 5 repos and
  • at least one follower:

example of GutHub query

VonC
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  • I saw your question on GitHub support (http://support.github.com/discussions/site/3525-advanced-search-uderstanding): maybe they will confirm my own answer here. – VonC Apr 21 '11 at 07:27
  • Thank you very much! I'll add a link there. – bizzz Apr 21 '11 at 07:34
  • @SiweiShen: mainly, I learn from the Git and GitHub *other* gurus on Stack Overflow (http://stackoverflow.com/tags/github/topusers, and http://stackoverflow.com/tags/git/topusers) – VonC Mar 23 '12 at 11:33
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You might also like the Hubscovery application. A simple search interface for Github.

berkes
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  • seems that this website is down, I can't open it in China, March 22th, 2012 – Siwei Mar 23 '12 at 01:53
  • It works here. But, if down in China, you can easily install [your own](https://github.com/jschoolcraft/Hubscovery), the software that runs it, is Open Source. – berkes Mar 23 '12 at 15:59