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It would be nice if they included a TL;DR notice at the top saying: “1. If you are a user of let’s encrypt today, this announcement does not imply that you need
by jng 6y ago
It would be nice if they included a TL;DR notice at the top saying: “1. If you are a user of let’s encrypt today, this announcement does not imply that you need to do anything at all, and, 2. The main thing is that new certificates are shorter and will take up less bandwidth, plus also safer.” In any case, thanks for the great, free service!
- colesantiago 6y agoI agree, I wish articles like this at the very least summarised their article first before going into a deep technical rabbit hole.
- edoceo 6y agoSide note: a TLDR at the top is called a BLUF = Bottom Line, Up Front. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLUF_(communication)
- pfundstein 6y agoA TLDR is traditionally at the bottom, but there's no rule against putting it at the top.
- cortesoft 6y agoBut no one knows what that means, so you would have to explain the whole thing every time you use it, defeating the purpose of a short acronym. Say tl;dr in the first sentence and everyone knows what it means.
- NovemberWhiskey 6y ago>But no one knows what that means ... anyone with writing experience in the military knows what that means.
- frogamic 6y agoSo still relatively few people.
- edoceo 6y agoNo, you don't label them you just follow good writing practice and put the important details first, details and data second
- zeroimpl 6y agoInteresting, seems pretty similar to an Executive Summary which also would have been very useful here.
- Ayesh 6y agoIn hindsight, Let's Encrypt is good at backwards compatibility and actionable information. I suppose the target audience is technical. LE is phrasing out their v1 API, and they email all users of v1 if they recently issued certificates with it. I suppose majority of non technical users of LE don't even visit the web site, apart from downloading the ToS PDF.