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To me, it looks like a cost issue. File hosting is not free and providing a downloads tab just encourages developers to use them as a filehost, sometimes as the

To me, it looks like a cost issue. File hosting is not free and providing a downloads tab just encourages developers to use them as a filehost, sometimes as the sole one. Removing the tab is a subtle move to tell people to host their files elsewhere. GitHub probably doesn't want to end up like SourceForge, which provides project file hosting except with ads to support the hosting costs. Having advertisements to GitHub seems against the site's nature so by discontinuing the tab they're showing they don't intend on being a filehost anytime soon. With that said, I would not be surprised if in the future if they reintroduced it as a "new" feature for their enterprise customers. We'll just have to wait a few years ...

Surio 14y ago
Ads are a non-issue here. SO carries job ads, and so does github. " Kabam is hiring: Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco " can be seen on that blog post page. It's something else. >>> File hosting is not free and providing a downloads tab just encourages developers to use them as a filehost, sometimes as the sole one IMO, that should not be an issue either. For users (like myself) a binary is the only way to integrate a tool/app into existing workflow to test its efficacy first. They are plain in the wrong wrong with this move. that's all.