Great news. Congratulations. If anyone is interested in learning more about Jekyll I've put together a link collection called Awesome Jekyll @ Planet Jekyll [1] - it also includes a section on the history (evolution) of GitHub Pages. Cheers.
[1] https://github.com/planetjekyll/awesome-jekyll
It's a tradition. That's how awesome lists work. See the mother of all awesome lists -> https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome for more examples. The idea is to keep it as simple as possible e.g. just a single README page. That's all.
Yeah I’m aware of that, but why? You can use GitHub pages with one markdown file; it would be the same contribution workflow but with a nicer end-user interface IMO.
Good point. Thanks. The first version was actually a links.yml Datafile with rendered with GitHub pages. The Dr Jekyll's Themes Directory [1] or the The Jekyll Showcase [2] still use this contribution workflow. Cheers.
Ah, I am referring to the use case where the site is rendered clientside via Jekyll, then uploaded to the x.github.io repo. (which lets you use plugins, among other things, which is why I thought that was the more frequent use case). Not the loading-markdown-directly workflow.
