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I think humans.txt (http://humanstxt.org/ http://humanstxt.org/) fits more, and already exists.
by fbnlsr 9y ago
I think humans.txt (http://humanstxt.org/ http://humanstxt.org/) fits more, and already exists.
- irrational 9y agoI've never heard of this. I wonder how many websites implement this. I tried a bunch of sites, but the only one I could find that had a humans.txt file was google: Google is built by a large team of engineers, designers, researchers, robots, and others in many different sites across the globe. It is updated continuously, and built with more tools and technologies than we can shake a stick at. If you'd like to help us out, see google.com/careers.
- r3bl 9y agoHere's two examples: https://medium.com/humans.txt https://medium.com/humans.txt, https://www.python.org/humans.txt https://www.python.org/humans.txt.
- darkhorn 9y agohttps://www.google.com/humans.txt https://www.google.com/humans.txt
- erichurkman 9y agoWe do: https://esharesinc.com/humans.txt https://esharesinc.com/humans.txt It's part of every new engineer's first day or two. It's their first shipped PR to add themselves as a human.
- JosephRedfern 9y agoI do! https://redfern.me/humans.txt https://redfern.me/humans.txt It should really be human.txt...
- Deimorz 9y agoA redirect to LinkedIn definitely isn't a proper implementation.
- JosephRedfern 9y agoI agree. It was meant to be a bit... cheeky. Honest question though, is your issue with the fact that LinkedIn isn't plain-text, or the nature of the information that LinkedIn provides?
- jwfxpr 9y agoNeither. If any of us curl/wget/whatever that file, we gain no usable, plain text, human information. We then have to, manually, notice the redirect, take a manual action to follow up, and then those two further objections would apply. Why implement a text file spec that doesn't serve a text file? Even if all your text file contained was "Please see http://linkedin.com/example” http://linkedin.com/example” it would be a correct implementation.
- spc476 9y agoI found this as part of a user agent in logs for my webserver: https://disqus.com/humans.txt https://disqus.com/humans.txt And going over my logs for the past year, I only found 6 requests for 'humans.txt' on my server.
- libeclipse 9y ago> It's an initiative for knowing the people behind a website. It's a TXT file that contains information about the different people who have contributed to building the website. Not sure why you linked that, it doesn't fit at all. They're solving completely different problems.
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- manigandham 9y agoNeither are solving any actual problems.
- Gaelan 9y agoHuh, apparently GitHub redirects theirs to their (HTML) about page.
- styfle 9y agoI was thinking the same thing. It seems the security team would be made up of humans :)