can you give specific examples of "hurts usability"?

change back to github

These links never pointed to github. Before the pkg.go.dev redirect, they went to the files on golang.org/src, like this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210409132622/https://golang.org/src/archive/tar/writer.go?s=432:876#L9

I too prefer Github, but this was never on GH so there is not a compelling reason to switch to GH.

I think any usability bit is going to be a matter of opinion, though. That said, IMO, a few things that are nice about Github:

• tabs are wide (they do not look like two spaces)
• even more colors for syntax highlighting
• comments are faded more, which has a clearer visual separation from code

FWIW, many (if not all) of those are settings available in top right menu:

When the link was changed, I immediately changed the tab size to my preference.

Awesome, I did not know that, thank you!

If you need a rich code reading experience, you can try Golds (https://go101.org/article/tool-golds.html), which provides much richer code reading features than Github. (I'm the author)

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Closing this issue.