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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by n3cr0@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months 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.