Forks activity feeds

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In https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/187038 it was announced that GitHub would now support disabling pull requests.

The initial idea behind github pull "requests" (I always felt that it was a misnomer) was to signal to some upstream repo owner that they might have been interested in the changes you did in your fork (and could pick that up and merge that in their code).

You never needed PRs for that, but it served some important role in discovering what the community may be doing around your code. Another useful tool for discovery is the forks graph, which I feel got buried deeper in the UI in recent years.

For code maintainers that would prefer not accepting PRs they would have to constantly triage and review, I think it would be nice to have some "forks activity stream" somewhere that shows what's happening in the project's forks.

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