x/pkgsite: consider reducing footer size #37865
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Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one.
pkgsite/frontend
Issues related to pkgsite HTML/CSS/JavaScript and frontend development
pkgsite
UX
Issues that involve UXD/UXR input
Milestone
A spiritual cousin to #37110 perhaps
What is the URL of the page with the issue?
https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/CloudyKit/jet?tab=doc
What is your user agent?
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.122 Safari/537.36
Screenshot
What did you do?
Visit the page.
What did you expect to see?
A footer like this:

Or like this:

Or this:

Or this:

Etc.
What did you see instead?
The footer in use takes up a lot of screen real estate! When you're scrolling fast through the docs, you hit bottom and then between the footer and the sticky header, you get this little visor with which to see actual documentation. You then have to scroll back up a little bit to be seeing the actual bottom "page" of the docs.
In terms of the value of the content, you probably could check the stats on it, but I'm willing to bet most visitors to those pages would almost never click those links.
Suggestion would be to have a short footer, like the current godoc. Or maybe just take the bottom section of the current footer:
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