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Don't use die.net! The manpages there were last updated 10+ years ago. It's very unfortunate that that site does so well on Google.

In this case it doesn't matter much I think. I suppose the api existed for ages.

But I prefer openbsd or man7 pages, sure.

Is there a better man page site to use instead? I abhor reading in the terminal.

The only other one I'm aware of is Ubuntu manuals: https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/en/

man7.org is "official" (linked from kernel.org)

Never knew this about man7, thank you.

Archlinux also now has a manpage viewer

Useful if you need to see the manpage of a very recent version of a package.

The documentation pages for FreeBSD include manual pages, for example

What's the difference between reading letters and digits on a webpage, and reading them in a terminal?

Scroll behavior, for starters.

You mean that you can't scroll in the terminal, or?

Obviously it is none of my business how people read their manpages, but on the off chance this may be useful to you:

    export LESS='--mouse --wheel-lines=3'

Mankier is nice if you like fancy formatting

Not only that, but I've been having lots of problems with Cloudflare lately. How much of the internet do they provide service for? Good grief...