When quickly browsing github projects to see what's worth my time I don't always click the website link.

I likely skip over repos with no screenshot much more.

What purpose are you browsing projects on github? Genuine question, as I've never done this.

To find active popular open source projects?

How do you do it?

Word of mouth, organic exposure. I've only used github search only for a few time aside from quickly finding one of my repositories.

Typically github readme's are targeted at busy developers rather than beginner s as well.

They also include a contributor guide so I can see how hackable some project I'm using is.

I also prefer to use projects I wouldn't hate hacking on if forced to. So a PHP project has a much higher bar than aHaskell project.

Github and other forges easily allow this approach.

I don't actively try to find active open source project, usually I stumble onto plenty of them from natural browsing/research for my own work

That's why I was asking, why would you actively search for projects? To consider contributing or just out of curiosity?