Read the Docs

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Read the Docs first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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4first-hand users

4in production

endorse 0mixed 0regret 2uses, no opinion

“but ReadTheDocs are all gone.”

regret · production · Izkata · 2025-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“readthedocs was unreliable for us but we also did not wanted to pay for our open source software documentation”

regret · production · therealmarv · 2018-08-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We migrated to RTD/Sphinx/rST mainly for 1) better handling of i18n and 2) better handling of multiple-version-documentation”

neutral · production · ktosobcy · 2024-07-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“until we figure out what broke the build on our ReadTheDocs.org setup, we switched the default branch to master.”

neutral · production · shykes · 2013-11-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?