Website for scryer

[denartha10]

I am not sure if this is the correct place for this but I really enjoy the project and was wondering if you would allow a contribution of a new UI for the website? I feel like it can help get people interested if they arrive to the site and its ✨Shiny✨. I would be interested in doing this along with other who would help

[aarroyoc]

Hi @denartha10 !

Just earlier this week we had our meetup in Vienna and the website was praised by several people as it was simple, fast, accessible and "even loaded in a train crossing the Alps". So I'm under the impression that most current users like the website and a new ✨ shiny UI would not be well received.

Still if you think some minor improvements can be made, the repo which implements the website is https://github.com/aarroyoc/doclog

[denartha10]

Hi, @aarroyoc,

sorry if I offended with the “✨” it was meant in good humour. I guess when I say a new UI I’m not talking JavaScript frameworks or lots of animations or anything like this I simply mean some css formatting for code snippets and layout just because on a personal level (and I understand that is subjective) I found it a little difficult to read.

[aarroyoc]

No offense was taken, don't worry! As a said you can modify the code in the linked repo, it shouldn't be to hard to deploy a version in parallel in some free hosting to see the changes

[jjtolton]

I am not sure if this is the correct place for this but I really enjoy the project and was wondering if you would allow a contribution of a new UI for the website? I feel like it can help get people interested if they arrive to the site and its ✨Shiny✨. I would be interested in doing this along with other who would help

I personally do love our Scryer website, but there is always room for improvement (no matter how good)! In many ways, a language is only as good as its tooling, and the website is one of our most important tools.

The rust docs are probably about as good as it gets, while the C++ docs are as about as bad as it gets.

What ideas did you have in mind? It's always important for us to stay competitive!

[bakaq]

I actually do like the cppreference site, but I think at this point it's just Stockholm syndrome.

[hurufu]

cppreference is a language reference manual, not a tutorial, but yeah it is written in standardeeze and it hard to read if you aren't an expert already.

[jjtolton]

I actually do like the cppreference site, but I think at this point it's just Stockholm syndrome.

😰 😰 😰

[denartha10]

I actually do like the cppreference site, but I think at this point it's just Stockholm syndrome.

its like reading an ingredients label😂

[denartha10]

@jjtolton Hiya, Yeah see that's my thinking is that a site is something you almost always use as a language user. The first and simplest thing I was going to tackle was actually to just get some code formatting with syntax highlighting for the code snippets. It is a small but meaningful addition that doesn't change the flow of the site very much