Osmose

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Every time I see a post complaining about Github making it hard to find direct downloads I imagine a worker in a convenience store finding a customer in the stock room yelling "Why is this soda wrapped in a pallet?! I can't figure out to get it out, this store is so fuckin stupid, you workers don't even understand why this is a poor store design!!!" and wondering who the hell told them to go in the back in the first place.


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in reply to @Osmose's post:

i agree but at the same time lots of projects do just link to github as a primary source of binary downloads and expect people to find releases because it's easier for the devs (not a bad motivation at all, just not great for non-technical users)

Sure, but much like if someone did point a user towards the stock room of a convenience store, instead of ranting about how shitty Github is and how out of touch developers are, perhaps the user should think "maybe this isn't really meant for users".

sure but if your only knowledge of the stock room was "that thing people keep pointing me to when i just want a fucking drink" then it'd be understandable to say "man fuck the stock room" at a certain point, it isn't meant for users but if users keep getting pointed towards it with no other option then clearly something's going wrong