github might be one of the least intutitive sites to download anything from to a non-tech expert and what's particularly frustrating is the tech expert types seemingly having no clue that github is INCREDIBLY hard to parse
seriously, look at this screenshot (for example) and tell me where im supposed to click to download what i need
i see this discourse go around constantly with tech types saying "well github isn't supposed to be a download host" but like. sorry but that what it's being used as. and this could be ENTIRELY avoided if it was just EASIER TO FIND the releases page. why is it buried in the sidebar like that without so much as a colored button background like the big green "CODE" button up top? ??????? why is the "about this project" part of the page buried underneath a list of every file and folder in the repository??????
FOSS stuff has this bizzare aversion to easy to understand UIs and every time devs in the space are called out on it they get super fucking defensive. it scares away people who would love your work otherwise. god just... look at blender or inkscape's UIs. excellent programs, sometimes working with them makes me want to bash my head into the wall
the pages and the architecture are already there an in use by almost everything i've downloaded off it it is literally as simple as just making the button Bigger, More Obvious, And Closer To The Top Of The Page. its so weird how many loops i've seen folks twist themselves into to say "actually this is fine"
As someone who has to use it all the time for projects n college n shit, its this fucking obtuse all the way down. The git ux design philosophy seems to be exclusively aimed at people who are already intimately familiar with how programs like this work, at the detriment of new users trying to learn it.
I dont think theres a single project where git or github hasnt caused issues or bottlenecks for me and ive heard the same complaints from most classmates ive talked to abt this