I think it does kind of in the way they say, but the real issue is that github has been a frozen project for like a decade. It's terrible at sorting, aggregation, ranking, sharing, and recovery of interesting things. It barely extends the existing git features. I'm not going to hold my breath for MS to make it actually better, but I am 100% certain that the inertia of open source projects would be greatly helped by a thoughtful way to just do and display basic tagging and project exploration history.

Yes I know github tags exist (and git tags and branches), and I've found things that I wouldn't of found otherwise, but personal and maybe color coded tagging of my own stars and forks. Maybe a view timelines of my own exploration and groups them by the stats created by other people's tags. To say nothing of producing a feed that was even just a rip off of 2005 facebook's wall with accessory discussion. This could totally still be kept in repo if need be.

Long story long, stars is all we got. They suck. So do forks. It's probably not going to improve when it merges with Skype. What are we doing next?