Enhanced Unity3D docs browser

I have put together a little webapp that I hope you will all find useful:

Enhanced Unity3D docs browser​

It's superior to the existing hosted documentation in two important respects:

• You can comment on the docs pages. This should allow you to add extra notes, discoveries, or gotchas to a docs page. You can also use it to ask questions, though please keep them general (i.e. don't use it as a place to ask for project-specific help). I reserve the right to moderate all comments and delete/edit things that I think aren't contributing to the resource.
• You can switch between different versions of the documentation. This is useful if you want to look up the details of a method in a particular older version of Unity, or if you want to compare how things have changed across versions.

To be perfectly clear, it is not an official Unity Technologies resource. I've spoken to the docs team about it, and they're cool with me running it, but they're not committing to ever looking at it or acting on any of the comments or feedback left there. If you want something to actually change in the docs, you still need to file docs bugs, but you could also leave a comment in the webapp so that other people can be informed while the bug is being resolved. Eventually UT will sort out a more comprehensive solution for getting the community involved in the documentation, but hopefully this will help fill that need for now.

If you find any bugs with the way pages are being displayed, with the scripting reference search, with comments, etc, let me know.

 

Oh, that's handy - if my traffic costs start getting too high, would it be OK if I used those versions of the docs instead of the copies that I'm hosting?

 

I think, like many things, it's just one of those areas they've not got around to addressing yet.

Not really. UnityAnswers is for more project-specific type help - posting your code and getting 'this is why it's not working' type answers. I intend the comments on the docs browser to be more like a dynamic FAQ.

 

Thanks; I'm afraid that one's Unity's fault, not mine. Filed as bug 504078.

 

FYI, I think there's a bug with the comment stuff such that they're not showing up properly at the moment. I'm seeing them come through into DISQUS - I'll look at it later tonight and fix whatever's wrong. Rest assured that any comments you've made have not been lost.