Before someone veers into a misguded USSR analogy (too late: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753890) note tha

Before someone veers into a misguded USSR analogy (too late: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753890 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5753890) note that Github also disabled downloads months ago: https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads https://github.com/blog/1302-goodbye-uploads Seems like it's a pain point for code hosting services.