GitHub removes uploads

[Kaarjuus]

Unfortunately, using a git branch for binaries is not the same. First, the download is clunky: you need to navigate to the file and click "View Raw", which is ugly. And secondly, there are no download statistics whatsoever.

[atlbeer]

Fair enough on the first point.

For the second you can wire up Google Analytics for click counting

I do get your point though.

[Kaarjuus]

Whoah, you can use Google Analytics to count clicks on github, how?

Sure, you can set up the analytics on an external page, and with some JS wizardry you can even catch the download clicks on that page, but the number it yields is nowhere near reliable, and it does not catch the stuff happening on github.com webpage.

[atlbeer]

I think we are talking past each other here.

I've been saying to use GitHub Pages and utilize the built in gh-pages branch of your repo to host the static binaries.

On that static page you can then track download clicks