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• r00ty@kbin.life ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I'd agree, but the caveat is that github is primarily about an interface for source control and collaboration between developers for projects. The release page is really just an also-ran in terms of importance.

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  • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imo they aren’t even trying, because it’s not that hard to make it better. Doesn’t even have to be a compromise.

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    • Rodeo@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There is, it’s literally right there on the home page of the project. You can either copy a URL and download it by cloning the git repo, or you can download the whole project as a zip file. Then you just have to compile it!

      GitHub is for developers, not end users.

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      • BatmanAoD@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not a download button for the program. But there is indeed a link to the release page right on the home page of the project, so you’re still correct.

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      • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s not a compromise to make another download button for the last release as well. No one looses.

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    • chevy9294@monero.town ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Imagine how many download buttons would be if Github had ads.

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• originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Excel has a bad UX for people who want to use it to make art

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  • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do most people who use Excel also make art with it? Because… devs also download exe files on GitHub :D

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    • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      GitHub, Inc. (/ˈɡɪthʌb/[a]) is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub

      Yes it has other functions too, but it’s primarily for code.

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    • originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Do MOST people who use GitHub download .exes? In my experience the VAST majority of people are using it for source and version control, not external releases. The overwhelming majority. FOSS and OSS is a small portion of the overall GitHub user base compared to, say, enterprise companies.

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• Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  not only the ux, some devs make it absurdly confusing to find a binary.

  I don’t want to throw anyone under the bus, but there’s this one niche app.

  their github releases at one point were YEARS out of date, they only linked to the current version in seemingly random issue reports’ comments. And the current versions were some daily build artefacts you could find in a navigation tree many clicks deep in some unrelated website. And you’d better be savvy enough to download a successfully built artefact too. And even then the downloaded .zip contained all kinds of fluff unnescessary for using the app.

  The app worked fine, sure, but actually obtaining it was fairly tricky, tbh.

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  • Cow2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    These build artefacts probably weren’t meant for end users, that’s why they contained the “unnecessary fluff”.

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    • Malix@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      absolutely, but they were in general (IIRC) suggesting them for the main downloads, but just not telling anyone outside the comments, which was the weird part

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• DudeDudenson@lemmings.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  GitHub has bad UX for a lot of things

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  • infinitepcg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Github UX is amazing if you ever had to use gitlab or bitbucket

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    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not black and white. I actually liked a few things better about bit buckets UI. It’s been too long to remember specifics though I think it was concerning PRs and diffs. I still think GitHubs review UI is too complicated. It took me literally years to fully understand it.

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    • fury@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m not so sure. I seem to be able to find my way around a GitLab project in much fewer moves than a GitHub project. But maybe I’m biased because I use it all the time at work. I know they change the sidebar a lot, though.

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• OofShoot@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve bounced off GitHub more than once trying to figure out how to download the .exe file that I assumed must be somewhere. Honestly I still don’t understand the interface and I’ve submitted bug reports for Jeroba on there. I might have even used GitHub for a project once? Every time I look at it it’s overwhelming and confusing and none of it is self-explanatory. But, that’s fairly true for a lot of stuff in programming.

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  • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If there is an exe, it’s under the releases link. On desktop it’s on the right sidebar below “About”. On mobile it’s at the bottom after the readme blurb.

    It’s not obvious because the code is the main focus, GitHub would much rather people host their releases somewhere else.

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    • BatmanAoD@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And even if releases are hosted on github, there should ideally be a download links page somewhere that presents the different binaries or installation files in an easier to understand format, especially if the software is designed for non-developers.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s where it is? I’ve been sneaking my way in by clicking tags and then the releases toggle!

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• peter@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s not really what it’s designed for though

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  • Anamana@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It doesn’t have to be a compromise imo. Most people just need a visible download button on the front pages. Wouldn’t hurt devs at all. I mean, even devs sometimes struggle with this lol.

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    • BetterDev@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It doesn’t have to be a compromise

      You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.

      Any change to appease you would be a compromise, you understand this, yes?

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• MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fixed it for them

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