Comment by ehsankia

Comment by ehsankia 4 days ago

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No one seems to be talking about the website itself.

While as a concept, I absolutely love "X by Example" websites, this one seems to make some strange decisions. First, the top highlighted example is just an overly complicated `cat`. I understand that it's meant to show the versatility of the tool, but it's basically useless.

Then below, there's 3 pages of commands, 10 per page. No ordering whatsoever in terms of usefulness. There looks like there's an upvote but it's actually just a bullet decoration.

There's also a big "try online" button for a feature that's not actually implemented.

All in all, this is a pretty disappointing website that I don't think anyone in this thread will actually use, even though everyone seems to be "praising" it.

gariany 3 days ago

Creator of the site here, thanks for your comment.

The build system randomize an example to showcase on the homepage, I actually find it funny that its different example every time.

Regarding the upvote system. This is a static documentation website. I have created a crazy unique solution to have upvotes working but the website had literally zero traffic in years, so I guess that wasn't the most important feature to focus on.

Sorry to disappoint, I'm doing it completely voluntary - happy to get any help here: https://github.com/eladg/ffmpeg-by-example