The problem with github isn't really a problem. It's just accessible enough to borderline tech people who want a one click solution to a problem. They can find it, but using it requires more skill than they have. It's a code repository, not an app store. The most useful things I find on github aren't from some massive app developer, they're from some guy who happened to have the same problem as me. Rather than screaming at that guy for an executable, level up. Learn something.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or head over to the releases page (just saying, it can be an app store too).

Basically, if there's no exe ready and you don't want to learn to make it, that means it doesn't exist for you. The github page might as well just say "Coming eventually!".

[–] Microw@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Tbf the released page can be hard to notice/find, a lot of projects who use it simply have links on the main page to it because a portion of users will fail to navigate there

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I mean I code extensively and it still pisses me off they kind of don't make the "download zip" more prominent or explain to noobs that this isn't compiled/ plug n play....nor are most of the apps for Windows users, really.

[+] xenoclast@lemmy.world -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

GitHub adding releases was the real UX mistake.

Anything outside of code repository stuff is outside their lane.

Start a new startup or something to solve that problem. Too late now that it's under Microsoft.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Gatekeeping OSS is a thing now?

[–] xenoclast@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm misunderstanding.. but are you saying GitHub, the corporate entity acquired by Microsoft for 7.8 billion dollars 6 years ago, is a champion of the free and open software movement and that needs some rando on the Internet to stand up for it?

People have lived through many cycles of Microsoft doing this shit. They don't deserve defending.

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe I misunderstood your comment. I'm talking from the layman's perspective looking for a stable build of whatever the software is.

Anything outside of code repository stuff is outside their lane

" sounds like you're talking about non-technical users when that was the context of the original comment. I understand what you mean now though, and I somewhat agree.