What happened to the Arduino documentation LINKS?

Now I try to find the help pages for new users, The Tutorial Pages that you could before click LEARNING on the forum and main site and get menus leading straight to the help docs. But NOW it's a mess of irrelevant choices thrown out like vomitorium spew!

WHAT A WASTE OF TIME! THIS IS WHAT BEGINNERS SEE!

I will look and maybe find legacy docs but seriously, get website workers who are not on mescaline, crack and Microsoft if only for the beginners!

I went to the home page and selected "Documentation".
Left column link "Learn".
That isn't what you wanted?

Main site, there is a Learn link... next down

Check out Arduino Docs, has a button to Arduino Docs, next down

and then scroll down and see link to Tutorials! next down

I must be there, it must be easy, where do find the Tutorial Example pages? The CLEAR PATH TO THE HELP?

It used to be easy to find the pages that went with the Tutorial Examples in the IDE so please show it! I want to give a new person a link.

Okay, now the link is in the tutorial comments.
I only need to open the IDE tutorial to find it in order to help find whatever I would refer to which isn't just tutorials like this time.

I'm not satisfied with losing clear menus to crass Obfuscation.
Now I need to find out if the noob has seen the tutorial they don't refer to AT ALL. Once again I question why bother helping?

You can't get there from here, starting from the forum on a mobile, either:

If the answer is for the user to start from another website, you’re doing the User Interface/ User Experience design wrong.

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@GoForSmoke

Following your instructions, I agree that it's near impossible to find something; I do not know what it looked like in the past.

To make matters worse, there is a useless search; when I type in Serial, I only get German titles (and some links broken).


I think this fits better in the "Website and Forum" section of the forum; any specific reason why you did not post it there?

Perhaps because of the site rearrangement to maximize empty space the small letter heading says Website a.. which I missed?

It's not just the docs part that is crowded with obfuscation of choice yet trendified.... and my screen is a 40" TV yet this!

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Yeah, that is definitely not an improvement.

You can move your topic if you want, I can move it for you if you want or you can leave it as is. Let me know if you want me to move it.

Sounds good. i dintno you're a mod!

Done

I'm not; there are a number of users that have a trust level that can do less than moderators but more than most users.

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Sounds like work to me anyway.

Yes, but the benefits are worth... oops.

A round of applause is in order for everyone who steps up and tries to herd the cats here.
Amusingly, I got auto-promoted once, but it seems(IIRC) you have to pretty much maintain a continuous presence, and have a super clean track record; I don't qualify, mostly because I wander in and out occasionally, and, well, there's the track record. For me, snarks are hard to suppress in some instances.

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