The "Downloads" section no longer available in Bitbucket?!

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

I just observed that for all my (public) Bitbucket repositories the "Downloads" section is no longer available. 

It seems that the existing files are still downloadable by accessing their direct URL, but there is no longer an option in GUI for managing the downloads/files.

What's going on?  Is this a "new feature" or an issue? Will this functionality be removed from BitBucket? If so, what will happen with the already posted files?

Thanks!

[Daniil Penkin · Accepted solution]

Hello @Danut M _StonikByte_,

Thanks for reaching out!

There has been a change in Bitbucket recently around visibility of repository navigation menu items in order to simplify experience with Bitbucket. Specifically, if the repository is empty, only Source item is shown whereas Branches, Pull requests and others don't make much sense at that point: they also reflect empty state and are pretty much useless until someone adds at least one commit (you can't create a branch or pull request in an empty repository, right?). So the decision was to avoid or reduce confusion for users there and not distract them from the workflow.

So, Downloads is one of the items hidden when the repository is empty. And looks like all your public repositories are empty, so your workflow is an edge case which we probably overlooked, unfortunately. Please add some kind of README into each repository, and you'll immediately get back Downloads in the sidebar menu.

Sorry for inconvenience. Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil

[Danut M _StonikByte_]

@Daniil Penkin Thanks! It worked.

Indeed, we don't use Bitbucket for Source Control but we use it as public Wiki and Issue Tracker. You guys should cover this scenario as well...

[Steven F Behnke]