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[–] originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A huge chunk of GitHub users? Citation needed. Sounds like what you mean is you and your communities use it that way.

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I use it both ways. As a software engineer I use it for various packages, which don't even need a releases page. But also as an end-user of open source software, I use it to download pre-built binaries of said software. Idk if you know, but there's a lot of open-source software out there. And github is the most popular platform for hosting it. And when I say software, I mean the kind where you don't expect your users to know how to build it from code themselves.