How would you make it easier? Currently it's on the sidebar with a big "Releases" heading and the link to the most recent release. From there you just look at Assets and download your file. The only way I can see it being easier is if it showed an annoying pop-up for all non-logged in or new users.

[–] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I would put it in the top area right after "Pull Requests". It currently isn't in the main navigation area and is very often under the page fold, making it hard to find unless you already know where it is.

Edit: On a standard 1080p screen, the Releases section for this repo isn't even visible without scrolling....

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

If I remember correctly, they used to be ~~in a tab in the top navigation, together with "Code", "Issues", "Pull requests", etc.~~ which was a lot easier to find for people who are not familiar with GitHub's UI. Edit: it was a separate bar right above the file list, together with the number of commits and branches: https://web.archive.org/web/20180610234228/https://github.com/rails/rails

Same problem with forks / network. In earlier revisions of GitHub's UI, they were relatively easy to find. Now you have to know that you can click the "59.7k forks" sidebar text which is in no way styled like a link or button. You can just infer it from the fact that there are also "Readme" and "View license" in the same list.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 9 points 2 days ago

Looking back, I find every single aspect of the 2018 design more accessible than the current one. Releases are above the fold, the list of forks is reachable by clicking the number next to the fork button, the explore link is right there in the top navigation. Sure, having three levels of horizontal navigation doesn't look very clean but there must be a better solution than hiding everything in hamburger menus and sidebars where you can only find them if you already know they exist.