Broken links continue to exist on major pages on dlang.org

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 June 2016 at 19:53:29 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> So you actually display the documentation for your own
> Phobos fork, right?

Yeah.

> This hasn't been an option for the DDOX based documentation for 
> obvious reasons, though, so no reason to laugh at it..

Well, I think ddox is a competent implementation (of an iffy 
design, I don't love ddoc itself), and the fact that it is ahead 
on search engine rankings shows the page breakdown is more 
SEO-friendly than stock ddoc, among other advantages.

But what I find laughable is the surrounding ecosystem. It got 
added to the official website without a real support plan: a 
clear commitment was never made to fix Phobos issues, and nobody 
knew if we were actually going to transition from ddoc, or live 
side-by-side, or what. Certainly, nobody knew when, so there was 
no sense of urgency to fix the Phobos source regardless.

It just kinda sat in a dark corner of the website for years with 
little attention from the Phobos crew. I doubt many of them use 
it.


I feel the same thing is happening with dub by the way: we're 
told that it is the D package manager and there's 
code.dlang.org... but where's the follow-up action to back it up? 
It isn't included with the dmd zip and has very little marketing 
on the website. There's still a drive to get stuff into Phobos 
proper, or at least std.experimental, instead of dogfooding the 
package manager.

Sure, there's a link to it on the website, but there seems to be 
little personal use of it - and thus little drive to improve it - 
from among the Phobos core themselves.