Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?
Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi
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#32I was confused why all the blocked results said “reset” until I realized I was logged in and had them all blocked…
I don’t recall using this list to populate mine but I think I must have!
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#33Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?
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#34Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I don't expect comprehensive and definitive documentation from it, nor copy&paste answers. But for getting pointed in the right direction about things that have been obscured by the desktop environments, and then left largely undocumented nowadays, the Arch Linux wiki usually points me in the right direction. Much of it would be pretty confusing to someone who only wanted high-level documentation in terms of th…
Oh it's really cool that you've used the arch wiki in that way. I had already done Linux From Scatch before I ran across the Arch wiki, so I was already familiar with concepts like boot loaders, kernel modules, and daemons. I mostly used it to find some sane config file values.
Similar here (25+ years Linux experience, including making my own distro). Personally, I use the Arch wiki for pointers to the current way to do system-level things, which has changed over time, with kernel and userland (e.g., all the things systemd changed, and for various kinds of devices), and sometimes for applications (e.g., what programs are currently available to do some small thing).
Maybe the value comes not just because they bother to maintain a wiki, but that Arch Linux tends to select for above-average technical people, even more than Linux in general does. (Even if Arch people strangely don't run Debian goodness; but we benefit from a diversity of perspectives, even if they are unexplained. :)
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#36Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?
It has a pretty bad reputation from an earlier era when it was actively providing bad information [0]. That's largely been resolved from what I understand, but the reputation lives on.
People may also just find that they don't get a lot of value from it, but if that were the only reason I'd expect geekforgeeks to rank equally high with it or higher.
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#37I'm not surprised to see w3schools.com up there. I haven't come across it recently because of shifts in what I do, but it used to come up so often when I was looking for coding documentation. It was almost always useless.
If only it was merely useless. I know its reputation but it had some information that MDN did not have, so I used it this once in recent years. Turned out, the information was simply wrong and so I made a wrong decision based on that. (It might have been about favicon format support in different browsers. Presumably it was Safari that never had support for vector graphics whereas w3schools listed it as such, and it's not like you can just download Safari to double check.) Regardless, what I'm sure about is that I alerted them to whatever the problem was, but for me it was the last nail in that coffin
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#38Some people seem to be blocking `w3schools.com`. What is the rationale?
It's a garbage site and there are far better non-profit web specification and utilization sites like MDN Web Docs. https://developer.mozilla.org/
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#39I love that wiki.archlinux.org is a top-Pinned. I'm firmly a Debian shop, but I find that the Arch Linux wiki often answers non-distro-specific questions that I have about how to do something on Debian. (Especially since I'm usually using Xmonad without a lot of the "desktop environment" stuff.)
The Arch Linux wiki is an absolute goldmine.
I briefly used Manjaro, Debian and Ubuntu before that, and now am primarily a NixOS user, yet I still find myself coming back to the wiki.
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#40Not the point of the post, but i’m surprised to see less than a million queries per day. Is that all of Kagi, or just some subset?
They only have 43,000 members (stat from the same page), so that's 20 queries a day per member, which doesn't seem that crazy.
So, only us HN members are members of Kagi.