GitHub

GitHub is a massive code repository platform that everyone from programmers to software developers to IT professionals use and depend on. Unfortunately though, GitHub is also one of the most confusing sites to navigate through, especially for the average person who just wants to download a software.

I heavily stand by the belief that software developers should NOT use GitHub as the primary download hub for their end-users. That is very bad practice in my opinion. Instead, it is a better practice to host their finished software on dedicated download hubs such as sourceforge. GitHub is primarily a code repository, not a software repository, and average users nagivating a GitHub repo can get easily confused like I once did.

𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 #𝟏
Bob used the command 𝚐𝚒𝚝 𝚌𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚎 ... to download a copy of his python project from his own repo.

𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞 #𝟐
Average User: Where do I download YouTube vanced?
Dev: It's on our GitHub page, linked here.
Average User: Um where is the download link on that site?? I only see a README.md and other weird files.