[HN Gopher] Godocs.io One Year Later
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       Godocs.io One Year Later
        
       Author : sirodoht
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-02-15 12:23 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | WhyNotHugo wrote:
       | The VCS Autodiscovery looks pretty neat. I really hope other open
       | source forges start picking it up too.
        
       | cientifico wrote:
       | Thank you very much for it.
       | 
       | There is a clear productivity hole for me since google removed
       | godocs until I discovered godocs.io. In the meantime, I even did
       | a chrome extension to make the new site more readable.
       | 
       | It was sad how they ignored the feedback. It felt like a designer
       | that didn't use go documentation daily designed the site. The
       | worst part is they never explained why.
       | 
       | godocs.io deserve to have a direct link in the http://golang.org/
       | site.
        
         | Thaxll wrote:
         | Why would you use OP website vs the official version:
         | https://pkg.go.dev/, for example
         | https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prome...
         | 
         | OP site looks inferior to the official one, maybe I'm missing
         | something.
         | 
         | Edit: why am I being downvoted?
        
           | cientifico wrote:
           | Here is what I wrote in 2020: https://github.com/golang/go/is
           | sues/37862#issuecomment-60181...
           | 
           | They closed the issue and asked to write it again while
           | ignoring the concerns.
           | 
           | In general, I think a few of us are disappointed. It felt
           | like some marketing guy at google deciding to use GO to
           | promote the company and replace one of the boring doc
           | services with something "cool." It felt like developers were
           | no longer driving the project: Now is a Google project.
           | 
           | To the day, I don't know why they decide to kill godoc.org
           | instead of improve it like OP.
           | 
           | For me, godocs.org should be in https://killedbygoogle.com/
        
           | Shared404 wrote:
           | The OP website is a replacement of a site that was replaced
           | with pkg.go.dev .
           | 
           | Said replacement was created because there were people who
           | didn't like the change, and so fixed it themselves.
           | 
           | Edit:
           | 
           | Also a heads up: People on HN tend to take questioning
           | downvotes poorly, and the site guidelines say to not do so.
           | 
           | In this case, it's probably because you didn't look into OP
           | at all before commenting, and completely disregarded both
           | your parents comment as well as the OP.
        
           | sirodoht wrote:
           | This is the creator's motivation for godocs.io and against
           | pkg.do.dev: https://drewdevault.com/2020/08/01/pkg-go-dev-
           | sucks.html
        
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