Progress doesn't always work

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This is due to the fact that github generates zips on the fly when you download them. That means that content-length isn't known when a zip is generated. The reason that progress works sometimes is that recently downloaded archives are cached, and thus their content-length is known (so we know how much we are downloading, meaning progress works).

So far the only solution I've come up with to make them always work is to set up a server than hosts pre-downloaded archives. Downside is that the server has to be maintained (also paid for), and must be regularly checking for new updates/releases to stay up to date.