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Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> wrote:
> rbowman wrote:
>> the real problem was the download
>> from SourceForge. That website has more clickbait download buttons than
>> anything I've seen lately and finding the right one
> 
> Been that way for years, surprised any projects still use it ...

Compared to GitHub where you need Javascript just to get the
download links, I love it. They have some tricks which allow
browsers without Javascript to work with their download links,
and with ads blocked those download links are pretty clear.

Finding different release files is also far more obvious than
in GitHub. I've been very confused before when projects have two
different types of releases published separately in the same repo,
so the latest release _isn't_ the latest release of the thing
you're looking for. With SourceForge they could just put them in
separate directories.

But a dedicated website with direct download links organised on a
proper custom webpage is always the best solution of all. So long
as someone bothers to update it - I've been caught out by project
websites left at the state of the last release _before_ they moved
to GitHub and forgot about it, grr...

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