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by pavel_lishin 707 days ago
The landing page doesn't really explain anything, except a tangential quickstart into Github hosting.
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Simonw[0] and 10 minutes later ChrisArchitect[1] mentioned another HN thread which it looks like dang __just__ merged. But that other post has a different link that is probably the intended one[2].

Though it is quite interesting to see how many comments are responding to (presumably) the title (and thus their interpretation of the title) and also didn't read each other's comments. Because when I hit reply, there were at least a dozen and I began writing this before dang merged.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40920767

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40920876

[2] https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/

I think regardless of where the original link linked, it's a very weird choice for a landing page.

"Follow these quickstart instructions!"

"Why, what are we quickstarting?"

"First, make a new repo!"

Yeah I thought it odd too. There's so little context. Feels like you're on the second page of some instruction set for who know what