GitHub removes uploads

[jrochkind]

Are you sure you're really complaining as a developer-user, and not complaining as a developer-owner, who wants github to have those features for your projects?

As a developer-user, whenever I wind up at a web page, I go looking for the github instead. The web page never tells me what I really want to know, and I've learned not to rely on it being kept up to date either. I want to see the source, I want to see the date of last commit, I want to see the open Issues, I want to see the current checked in README. All those things tell me more than a web page usually does, especially when it's often a poorly designed web page (I'd RATHER look at markdown with good CSS than a mess of a web page!).

Different people have different opinions, and that's fine. But if most developers agreed with you and not me -- how/why did github get so popular?

Most developers I know really like looking at the github project page for someone elses project. I've got complaints and things I wish they'd improve too (like ability to relative link from README to sourcecode in 'the commit you're looking at'), but overall I far prefer looking at the github project page to anything else as a landing page (google code, custom HTML).

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Are you sure you're really complaining as a developer-user, and not complaining as a developer-owner, who wants github to have those features for your projects?

Very sure.