It's kinda depressing that this article is basically just a copy of one I wrote in 2010 and it's still something that gets attention as interesting stuff. Nginx documentation obviously still has a long way to go.
I was more surprised than depressed about the upvotes for the current article. It really makes me wonder if the technical level of the audience here hasn't declined substantially. The current article is well written but it's aimed at a "Dummies" rather than developer level.
We were not aware of your article at all, and if it's "basically a copy" it was entirely coincidental. I think the way you're looking at is very negative though -- any and all efforts to improve understanding of a great and powerful dev tool I think are a positive thing for the community.
I'd love to see your article too, could you link to it?
It's not your article that's depressing, it's the fact that nginx documentation hasn't come further than this over the years. Obviously there's still a need for even basic nginx information and there's absolutely no blame from me for filling that need. If anything I should blame myself for not marketing my own stuff more. :)
I instantly thought of your article when I saw this one. I also defended NginX's documentation and linked to the actual documentation, which I think most people forget exists over at http://nginx.org/en/docs/.
The official nginx documentation is better but it's still mostly just an API documentation, there's no red thread through it to tell people "read this first, then this and then jump over here".
Since this kind of article still gathers this amount of popularity 3 years later I actually do think it's a problem of the documentation.
