I agree there clearly needs to be a single place where all documentation resides (either a virtual single location or physical) this could be further divided into a “user guide” and a "wiki like gathering of other info such as theory, experimentation, development, general info etc,
Indeed and they are very useful, however I do not recall ever seeing a “full-blown user guide/manual” that omitted everything included in the “quick-start” guide because it was provided somewhere else, which seems to be the intention here.
I understand the desire to offer a helpful quick start guide, but it ceases to be one as soon as it is intended to replace a fuller guide, it can either be a quick-start guide in addition to a fuller guide or if it does contain all the user guide info it is not “quick start” it simply cannot be both “full” and “quick” as the topic is too complex.
On a previous discussion around these same points it was said the “quick user guide” was intentionally set up for use on a mobile phone for use in confined or remote places as that’s where many distribution boards and meters were eg under the stairs, I’m guessing someone working on all fours under the stairs wanting to know which end of an emonpi to plug in their optical pulse counter will not remain there to configure the input processing, feeds and graphs. I really like the idea of a mobile friendly “quick install guide” for this purpose but the current “user guide” is not really suitable, if we are struggling to find stuff using a desktop PC, using a mobile under the stairs is unlikely to be any easier.
I hope these comments are taken as “constructive” criticism, although they are not overly positive comments, they are 100% intended to help make improvements, the work done so far is appreciated and just as it has already been said in this thread (and many others), documentation isn’t an easy task and this is further compounded by the complexity of the content and the wide range of audience competencies.
The reason I have not previously posted on this topic is because I do not share the same opinion on the direction this is heading and I certainly would not want to stifle progress if I was alone in my thinking or I thought airing my points was unlikely to have any positive impact.
@Gwil the recent changes to the navbar look great, I did start to write some points I thought might be useful, but one of those inter-connected points was about the use of the word “community” when it had been previously decided to use the word “forum” in the navbars
I do not know if that decision has deliberately been overturned since it was made, but if it has there seems little point in discussing further, if there is interest or it is an oversight I would be happy to share some thoughts on the navigation.