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Re: Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

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Post by alisonkisk »

st_goliath wrote: post #30
vanderZwan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Price hike", really? I would not exactly call 6.67 euros a month a rip-off. Given your reaction to it, it seems like a very reasonable policy to ensure that people claiming a URL really have plans with it, while keeping out foreigners parking on Somalian webpace for the lulz. EDIT: some context that is probably relevant to this topic that I should not presume to be familiar with everyone is the controversy surroundi…

I'm old enough to remember personal websites being a thing, before everyone and their company went over on that Face Site. I had a personal site back than which IIRC 2010 or 2011-ish I moved to the domain I mentioned, and, at the time, I kept updating the site somewhat regularly (before than I had a .de domain, which was really darn cheap and the site was in German only). The .so NIC "adjusted" the price IIRC around…

If the price is too high, you can lodge a complaint with your elected representatives in Somalia, or you can use a domain in your home country.

Re: Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

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Post by st_goliath »

alisonkisk wrote: post #31
st_goliath wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm old enough to remember personal websites being a thing, before everyone and their company went over on that Face Site. I had a personal site back than which IIRC 2010 or 2011-ish I moved to the domain I mentioned, and, at the time, I kept updating the site somewhat regularly (before than I had a .de domain, which was really darn cheap and the site was in German only). The .so NIC "adjusted" the price IIRC around…

If the price is too high, you can lodge a complaint with your elected representatives in Somalia, or you can use a domain in your home country.

Choosing any price or deciding to boot non-citizens is their perfect right. Heck, I would even be in favor of country code TLDs only being used for stuff somehow related to those countries. I never claimed anything else, I just tried to point this out, because someone asked (see several postings up).

I'm not running some kind of startup. Outside my work I'm just some guy tinkering with electronics, software and network stuff, and sometimes I write about it on the Web, so naturally I would like to have a catchy domain name with my IRC and IRL nick name in it that people know my by. I went with the .so domain, because it made for a nice play on words, same for the .com domain. Why do I have to justify that all of the sudden?

> or you can use a domain in your home country.

For some of my more involved software projects, that's exactly what I did. It says so right in the post you replied to.

Re: Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

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Post by sdesol »

By all early metrics, this project looks like it can become extremely popular and healthy. If you switch to the impact view in the following:

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?q=wind...

And look at the impact chart at the bottom, it has all the signs of a healthy/popular project. A high number of contributors in Zone 3 indicates strong interest. A decent number of contributors in Zone 2, indicates high individual contributions to the project. And having no contributors in Zone 1 is the most important, as it means the work is being fairly distributed among Zone 2 contributors.

Normally for a project to be this fresh (23 days), you would expect somebody in Zone 1, but there isn't any, which is a very strong indicator of popularity and an even distribution of work that should make it more viable in the long run.

Note: Don't install my tool as the license in the docker image is out of date and needs to be updated.

Edit: Any reason for the downvoting? I know it is my tool but it does show insights that is relevant to the repository.

Re: Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

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Post by [deleted] »

capableweb wrote: post #4
doublerabbit wrote: post #3

> This site is optimized for desktop Please visit readme.so on a desktop to create your readme! So it's not the easiest way to create a readme.

I guess if you normally create your READMEs on the phone, then no. But then, how often do you create READMEs on a phone? I can count on no hands the amount of times I've done that in my life.

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Re: Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

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Post by system2 »

bauerd wrote: post #23
togaen wrote: post #20

Why is this easier than opening a text editor?

It is not about opening a text editor. It's about what you would type into that editor. The value provided is in the templates, not in the editor.

If someone is writing readmes all the time, why wouldn't that person have a pandadoc or similar template for this task?

Re: Readme.so – Easiest Way to Create a Readme

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Post by Phil-bitplex »

system2 wrote: post #39
bauerd wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It is not about opening a text editor. It's about what you would type into that editor. The value provided is in the templates, not in the editor.

If someone is writing readmes all the time, why wouldn't that person have a pandadoc or similar template for this task?

You're exactly right - if you're writing readme's all the time, you'd have templates ready to go.

I only write readme's maybe once every few months or perhaps once a year, and having a template (interactive like this one, or otherwise) that someone else has thought about is super useful to me.

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