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golang / pkgsite

pkgsite

[mirror] Home of the pkg.go.dev website

5Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.3KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

What to know before exploring

What it is

[mirror] Home of the pkg.go.dev website

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.

No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.

Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:56:20 AM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-08-02 06:06:35 UTC to 2024-09-30 11:26:52 UTC.

0122020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2024

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
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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There was a proposal to add a new go-source-2 meta tag, but that was abandoned because a lot of code hosting sites would not have been supported yet: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/39559 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40477 That is why they decided to turn it into an internal/source package inside pkgsite first to have test cases for a later go-source-2. If your site does not show source links on pkg.go.dev then add a comment to issue 40477 above and an exception will be added. - internal/source: https://github.com/golang/pkgsite/blob/master/internal/sourc... Note1: Maybe mention this on your website because that took a little to find. It does not fit into the narrative though. Note2: Requiring frontends to offer meta tags is the only way to make code discoverable with the url alone. cgit not offering this is on cgit and not on
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Go/pkgsite (haven't checked whether they do)
In Pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering

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