@laurenshof @theresmiling *Sometimes* (OK, not that often, but *sometimes*) the link to Github takes you to a readme page which, if you know to scroll down so that you can actually see it, tells you in comprehensible (to you) terms how to install and use the thing.
So next time you click on a Github link and see incomprehensible gibberish it just *might* be worth scrolling down to see if there are any useful instructions.
@TimWardCam @theresmiling respectfully, I'd like to reiterate my previous comment directly: this vastly underestimates the amount of tacit knowledge that you need in order to make sense of a github readme page, let alone execute the code. And I'm talking about github pages that do have properly formatted readme's with a stepbystep tutorials, even those should be treated as completely inaccessible to the vast majority of people
@laurenshof @theresmiling Yes, they're mostly crap - all I'm claiming is that
(1) VERY OCCASIONALLY there's a useful one, which
(2) the uninitiated will never see unless they know to try scrolling down.
The rule for designing web pages is that anything you actually want people to see has to be above the fold - Github readme pages do the exact opposite.
