The roots of sites should be actual pages

doc.rust-lang.org is a cross-domain redirect

rust-lang.github.io is a 404 page

both of these are strange and unexpected things to put at the root of a domain that actually contains things

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I suppose that could reasonably redirect to something like doc.rust-lang.org/stable instead?

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how does rust have so many scattered, unconnected pages that aren't linked to from anywhere???

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Herding cats situation.

Each team builds the site themselves and they don't coordinate. Try to force them to build better sites, and the result is likely to be that the sites don't get built at all.

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the problem isn't that the sites are bad, but that they don't link to each other reliably.

we don't need all the teams to coordinate all their sites together, but instead forward the knowledge of these sites to someone who can put them in a neat list somewhere.

This one is mostly a consequence of how GitHub Pages works. The repository org/repo has its pages live at org.github.io/repo, and while putting content at the site root is possible, it isn't common, and requires quite a lot of cross-repository coordination.

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I think you can make a root page for gh pages at org/org

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