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man is universally known in the industry, and supported (to some extent, at least) by project authors/maintainers; this project will be forgotten by almost everyone (and start decaying) as soon as this post is off the front page here.

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This is the second time it's been on the front page, and the last time was years ago. Doesn't seem to be decaying. Actually, it seems to be improving.

They're often used, but I suspect most people who read them don't know how to write or even modify a man page. (What format is it?) Also, Stack Overflow probably gets more traffic.

Whether documentation gets read or not probably depends on its Google ranking more than anything.

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