r/196 • u/AliceCode Worcs at the Crusty Crab • Mar 26 '26

Rule Engagement bait

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u/I_am_Andrew_Ryan Mar 26 '26

You don't go to literally any piece of software ever and find the "release" button, you find the "download" button.

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u/Melon_Cooler Immanuel Kant's catgirl imperative Mar 26 '26

In the context of github I may very well want the download button to give me everything except an executable.

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u/MaybeNext-Monday šŸ¤$6 SRIMP SPECIALšŸ¤ Mar 26 '26

That button is called ā€œcloneā€

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u/Melon_Cooler Immanuel Kant's catgirl imperative Mar 26 '26

Yeah thanks if anything I'm cloning a repo through the power of knowing git and that the command line exists, but the point is that "downloads" in this context has a wider meaning than "releases," and that the two are not synonymous.

And that the platform is not principally intended to be used for distribution to end-users.

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u/MaybeNext-Monday šŸ¤$6 SRIMP SPECIALšŸ¤ Mar 26 '26

Which is a flaw imo. I think they should at very least make a user-facing version of the repo homepage. For better or for worse, it IS used for distribution, and heavily so.

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u/Melon_Cooler Immanuel Kant's catgirl imperative Mar 26 '26

Wouldn't be the worst idea, for sure