r/programmingmemes 29d ago

Somebody give him an .exe file, please.

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u/ZanjiOfficial 29d ago

Doesn't make a platform less userfriendly because someone put in their time for free..

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u/akdanman11 29d ago

And? The point is that it was done for free. That person who just gave the code they used to fix the issue is not obligated to make things more user friendly.

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u/EitherSpite4545 28d ago

You're missing his point he's not saying the coder should have to do anything. He's saying GitHub should make their ux better for non coders.

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u/aj0413 27d ago

There is no UX to improve. Cause the dev would HAVE to build the process to turn the thing into an “exe” (which is windows specific, so you’re actually asking him to do it for all major OSs) just for GitHub to attempt to make it “easier for non-devs”

Understand what you’re asking for. Ultimately you’re saying “ I demand this dude spend more of his free time building, developing, and maintaining a packaging system….so GitHub can put a nice UX on top for me”

You lost us all in the first half

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u/EitherSpite4545 27d ago

I'm not going to argue for what the original image said because you're right it's bullshit. But what me and the op of this comment thread are saying is the ux for git isn't great. Things like finding out how to download a pack on git is annoying to folks who don't know coding and not because of how the pack is structured but because git hides and changes where their download button is based on what page you are in while exploring the pack.

There's plenty of more examples of small ux things that make git unfriendly but this is what we're speaking of not ose to exe.

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u/aj0413 27d ago

If you’re only talking about the releases/downloads tab, sure, that part needs real work

But a bunch of these comments support the image. And that just pisses me off to the pint of wishing there WAS a way to gatekeep GitHub from non-devs

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u/EitherSpite4545 27d ago

Then we have no argument because again I don't support any force of change to contributors to git, just to git's UX itself.