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alphagov
govspeak
Ruby2014–2019
alphagov / govspeak

govspeak

Markdown extension library for Government editors

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
108GitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

Markdown extension library for Government editors

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-06-17 17:22:02 UTC to 2019-12-22 20:23:58 UTC.

012014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The code is available on GitHub, you can see for yourself. It's mostly written in a customised markdown variant called Govspeak[0]. You appear to be jumping to ridiculous conclusions. Decisions on how we deliver content are made on the back of a huge amount of research. It's more accessible than it's ever been, other governments and organisations are following our lead. To suggest PDF, ODF or other crippled, inaccessible, OS-constrained formats over HTML - something everyone can read with any of their devices - shows you need to do more research before posting your ill-informed views. [0] https://github.com/alphagov/govspeak Edit: Also, web page have plenty of other advantages. Indexed by every search engine, bookmarkable/shareable headings. What other medium offers that?
In Gov.uk content should be published in HTML and not PDF (2018)

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