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by Kinrany 2000 days ago
Do you have any ideas for changing the format, to make it easier to write about these things in a way that lets people read the parts they want?

Possibly write about the reasons something was changed and the use cases improved, instead of the changes themselves?

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I don't, because I think it is fundamentally impossible. I'm willing to be proven wrong though!

I do try to write about the reasons why and use-cases improved. One of the issues is that that increases the amount of text, which directly goes against the idea of quickly finding what you want.

At the end of the day, if you want to know everything, you have to read everything. There's no shortcuts. I try to highlight the best things that the most people will want to know about, but if you really want to know everything, there's no better way than going straight to the source, like I do to create the post in the first place.

You don't want to sign Lin Clark for doing helping write these? If we could dream :)

I was imagining something spatial, a drawing, a map, something that makes it possible to overview and place the new features in context with each other. Probably nothing that can be realized.

Lin is fantastic, don't get me wrong :)