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[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 52 points 8 months ago (1 children)

not only the ux, some devs make it absurdly confusing to find a binary.

I don't want to throw anyone under the bus, but there's this one niche app.

their github releases at one point were YEARS out of date, they only linked to the current version in seemingly random issue reports' comments. And the current versions were some daily build artefacts you could find in a navigation tree many clicks deep in some unrelated website. And you'd better be savvy enough to download a successfully built artefact too. And even then the downloaded .zip contained all kinds of fluff unnescessary for using the app.

The app worked fine, sure, but actually obtaining it was fairly tricky, tbh.

[–] Cow2@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago (1 children)

These build artefacts probably weren’t meant for end users, that’s why they contained the “unnecessary fluff”.

[–] Malix@sopuli.xyz 6 points 8 months ago

absolutely, but they were in general (IIRC) suggesting them for the main downloads, but just not telling anyone outside the comments, which was the weird part