Meta Depreaction

[kianenigma]

This takes a big step towards deprecating a lot of the content here.

Everything is still accessible, no URL has changed, but you would have to first see the deprecation page.

The docs homepage now looks like this:

Once you click on it, you land on this page with further explanation, and access to all the old content in the navbar:

And a single page looks like this:

• I need a counterpart PR in https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-website, that adds something to the top navbar, that links to the same /polkadot-sdk page. @rmnprkrl will you be able to help with that?

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[CrackTheCode016]

Super tiny nits, looks good to me!

[shawntabrizi]

i am fine with this as a first step, but I am def inclined to actually start deleting more content overall :)

I am not sure the best look either is to have docs which are all "deprecated" everywhere. Looks like we are dying.

[kianenigma]

That's a great point, I will rework the use of the word "deprecated", I agree it has too much of a negative connotation.

I can call it more positive things like "upgrade", "new era", and such.

[shawntabrizi]

@kianenigma truthfully the answer to me is to just delete the content.

Content which does not work or is not updated is just noise.

I think we must look to figure out what content we actually want to keep, maintain, and then just make sure those links exist, and are maintained

That being said, i don't want to hijack this PR and add a bunch more work. I think this is a fine first step

[rmnprkrl]

• I need a counterpart PR in https://github.com/paritytech/substrate-website, that adds something to the top navbar, that links to the same /polkadot-sdk page. @rmnprkrl will you be able to help with that?

@mordamax took over the website/infra on the paritytech side and hopefully could help you.

[kianenigma]

@kianenigma truthfully the answer to me is to just delete the content.

Content which does not work or is not updated is just noise.

I think we must look to figure out what content we actually want to keep, maintain, and then just make sure those links exist, and are maintained

That being said, i don't want to hijack this PR and add a bunch more work. I think this is a fine first step

Indeed, Papermoon and W3F have started this process, and afaik are quite far in it. I have also provided some degree of help to them toward this goal.

I will remove the negative "deprecated" word, then proceed with merging this.

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@mordamax can you help with providing some kind of a minimal ribbon/banner in the main substrate website, that is visible in all pages, and forward everyone to docs.substrate.io/polkadot-sdk? This can happen next.