Read the Docs Blog
Posted in 2016
Announcing pydoc.io beta
- 17 November 2016
- Portland, Oregon
Today we’re excited to announce our latest project: https://pydoc.io. This work was made possible by the MOSS Grant from Mozilla. Thanks to Mozilla for funding our time building this wonderful community resource.
Running Read the Docs, we’ve always been proud of the documentation tooling that the Python community has. We prioritize prose over API documentation listings, and generally have a high standard of documentation in our projects.
Running ads with Sentry
- 24 October 2016
- Portland, Oregon
We’re excited to announce our first partner in our Ethical Advertising campaign: Sentry.
Sentry was a natural first partner, both because they have a long history supporting and contributing to the open source community, and because they also strive to support open source while building a sustainable business around their project.
Securing Subdomains
- 27 April 2016
- Portland, Oregon
Starting today, Read the Docs will start hosting projects from subdomains on
the domain readthedocs.io, instead of on readthedocs.org. This change
addresses some security concerns around site cookies while hosting user
generated data on the same domain as our dashboard.
Changes to provide security against broader threats have been in place for a while, however there are still a few scenarios that can only be addressed by migrating to a separate domain.
Advertising on Read the Docs Community Sites
- 09 March 2016
- Portland, Oregon
On Monday, we enabled an ad space on documentation pages hosted on readthedocs.org. We have tested the ad space in the past, and had followed up with a discussion of the implications of advertising. The space was meant to be totally unobtrusive to the browsing and usage of documentation pages, and doesn’t enable third-party tracking of users in any way. This is all in an effort to help raise funds to support continued support and maintenance on the project, and ensure free and open documentation stays available.
Read the Docs is a massive project, and requires a large amount of work to keep running and support. We receive support requests and must tend to the operations of the servers on a daily basis. Neither of these tasks lend to volunteer contributions, they both require dedicated support roles for such a large site. I’ve personally been wearing a pager in support of the project for over 4 years, all on a volunteer basis.
Read the Docs 2015 Stats
- 15 January 2016
- Portland, Oregon
2015 has been another great year for Read the Docs. We’ve addressed some long-standing issues like not having Markdown support, and built a number of wonderful tools for the documentation community.
You can always see our stats for the last 30 days.