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Github does have a pretty good binary hosting / download feature, it's called Releases. There's even an API to automate it. It's not very widely used, perhaps because it only rolled out it 2013.

About Releases: https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software

An example: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/releases/

As for mailing lists, I guess their excuse is that they already provide possibilities for discussion in the issue tracker (which can be also interacted with entirely by mail). This is appropriate as a forum for developers - but not a forum for users, which would be out of Github's scope, IMO.



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