Notes on tldr hosting 🖧

I put up tldr pages last year.

Here's one where tldr describes itself.

I wasn't sure if this was worthwhile, and although I've used it occasionally myself, I largely forgot about it. But recently I got email from someone who found it helpful, which put it back in my mind.

I wondered which pages were used the most, so I looked in the capsule log. As usual, finding useful info isn't simple.

Crawlers mean that all the pages get quite a lot of hits.

Someone's crawler didn't understand relative URLs. Whoops.

The most popular pages all begin with A or a number, but those are the ones at the top of the tldr page, so I assume that drive-by people are just trying those out rather than people actually looking for information.

Here's the top ten things (in popularity order) that come after A in the alphabet:

finger

buzzphrase

fuck

emacs

fossil

couchdb

git-status

diffstat

chattr

bundle

Hmm, still all pretty near the start of the alphabet. What's the most popular from the second half of the alphabet? No one's scrolling down that far unless they really want to know stuff, surely? Here's the top ten for M to Z:

youtube-dl

youtube-viewer

zig

tar

sequelize

wpm

systemd-analyze

ruby

rdfind

xdg-mime

I don't have any sensible conclusion to draw, apart from "Someone wrote a utility called fuck!"

Oh, and when I post this, crawlers will find links to those pages and crawl them more, so the list is self-prepetuating.

#tldr

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