It's not wasting anyone's time. The github is just a mirror of the official git repo, no one read the PRs so it's commonly used for shitposting Brodie Robertson made a video about it

[+] AmidFuror@fedia.io -11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

By complaining about copypastas you are just making it worse. Can't you see that? Every time you comment and complain about people posting the same comments each time just adds to the incentive for people who think they are funny to continue. I am willing to bet that this comment will turn into a *** copypasta at this point just because of how "funny" and "ironic" it would be to make a copypasta out of a comment complaining about copypastas.

Source: https://www.twitchquotes.com/copypastas/1810

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

By complaining about people complaining about copypastas you are just making it worse.

[–] didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Would have been funny if it was original. Just randomly wasting peoples time with copy-pasta is not cool.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 1 month ago

Sometimes Programmer Humor is not very funny 😭

[–] agelord@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Source: https://www.twitchquotes.com/copypastas/1810

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

It is really hard to find application releases on Github though. That is something that could be improved.

[–] BootLoop@sh.itjust.works 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

GitHub's layout is strange to me. Why isn't releases in the top nav bar with Code, Issues, PR, etc.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I know it doesn't address the issue for most people, but that and other things can be "fixed" with the refined GitHub extension.

The worst part IMO is that there used to be a "releases" button somewhere that got nuked. While "projects" is usually there, even though repos rarely use it.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Exactly!

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 month ago

Because GitHub really doesn't want to be the webhost for releases. They want you to spin up a website and provide downloads from your own server, and only link to github for the code.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Try gam (Github Application Manager). It's like apt for GitHub.

https://github.com/Fmstrat/gam

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

"Releases" section right hand. If there is nothing click on the dropdown "Code" and there "download ZIP" because there is no exe.

[–] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 2 points 1 month ago

They’re like right there in the side bar

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People joke about linux.exe, but there was such a thing as andLinux/coLinux

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

And Wubi!

[–] vivalapivo@lemmy.today 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The GitHub PR section is a shitshow of different freaks trying to get attention from other freaks

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 1 month ago

My people 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago

LGTM

[–] GreatRam@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I thought the issues on the Linux github repo became a dating service

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

To be fair, the github.cum/author/project/releases subsection of a isn't exactly the first thing that you find, nor is there a very visible link that stands out.

I must've stumbled across it at some point as I know of its existence, but I don't know how to get there so I usually just manually add it to the URL.

[–] dave@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Github dot what now?

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

cum

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's the adult-only version.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

To be fair again, OOP would probably also have issues with running Linux.exe.

The release page would probably not helped them much.