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🌎 We host the world's docs 💗 Fully open source 🔨 Sphinx, Mkdocs, and your tool of choice 🔑 Public & private docs 🐘 https://fosstodon.org/@readthedocs

We're currently under a large DDOS attack, and have dialed up our firewall settings to try and stay online for normal users. Please let us know if you are seeing any additional issues accessing documentation pages.

readthedocs's tweet image. We're currently under a large DDOS attack, and have dialed up our firewall settings to try and stay online for normal users. Please let us know if you are seeing any additional issues accessing documentation pages.

Thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for providing credits for our Community platform. It helps us provide continued documentation hosting for the open source community, and be a reliable part of the ecosystem for almost 15 years now (!!). Read more: about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/09/a…

readthedocs's tweet image. Thanks to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for providing credits for our Community platform. It helps us provide continued documentation hosting for the open source community, and be a reliable part of the ecosystem for almost 15 years now (!!). 

Read more: about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/09/a…

Thanks so much to AWS for continuing to provide free credits for our Community platform. It helps us provide documentation hosting for the open source community, and be a reliable part of the ecosystem for almost 15 years now (!!). Read more: about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/09/a…

We're thrilled to support @readthedocs through our Open Source Credits program! 🎉 📚 100k+ open source projects 💻 Millions of developers served 🚀 $500k in AWS credits since 2021 Together, we're building a stronger #OpenSource ecosystem. Learn more: go.aws/45TFXtW



We're excited to announce our GitHub App -- allowing more granular permissions and additional functionality around PR builds. You can start using the new GitHub App today on our Community site in beta. We plan to start testing with our Business users soon. about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/06/a…


We had an outage on Business documentation sites due to a phishing attack that caused our domain to be suspended with 48 hours notice and breaking DNS resolution for all customer sites. We have deleted the malicious sites and are waiting for our domain to be reinstated.


We have been experiencing an attack for the past 2 days, which has been causing some 429 issues for some users. This is faking normal browser User-Agents, which is making it hard to block without also causing some captchas and rate limits for users. We're working to resolve it.

readthedocs's tweet image. We have been experiencing  an attack for the past 2 days, which has been causing some 429 issues for some users. This is faking normal browser User-Agents, which is making it hard to block without also causing some captchas and rate limits for users. We're working to resolve it.

Today we're highlighting Antora, a tool built on top of Asciidoc to render a full documentation site. We've big fans of all the various plain text markup languages, so give this one a try! docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stabl…

readthedocs's tweet image. Today we're highlighting Antora, a tool built on top of Asciidoc to render a full documentation site. We've big fans of all the various plain text markup languages, so give this one a try!

docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stabl…

Today we're highlighting our support for Docusaurus, which is a JS doc tool that originally came out of Facebook. It's a great choice for folks in the JS ecosystem who want a fully featured site out of the box. Learn how to deploy it easily: docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stabl…

readthedocs's tweet image. Today we're highlighting our support for Docusaurus, which is a JS doc tool that originally came out of Facebook. It's a great choice for folks in the JS ecosystem who want a fully featured site out of the box.

Learn how to deploy it easily:

docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stabl…

Just a reminder that we're doing a scheduled downtime event in 30 minutes today at 2:00 PM PST. We expected 15-30 minutes of downtime for each our Business and Community sites, but public docs should continue serving. More details here: about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/p…


Markdoc is a project open sourced by Stripe. You can host it with us by doing a static build of your doc site, and get all the building and hosting features of Read the Docs. docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stabl…

readthedocs's tweet image. Markdoc is a project open sourced by Stripe. You can host it with us by doing a static build of your doc site, and get all the building and hosting features of Read the Docs.

docs.readthedocs.com/platform/stabl…

Our February newsletter is out: * Scheduled downtime on February 14 for DB maintenance * Flyout position can now be easily changed. * We moved our docs to `docs.readthedocs.com` * Lots more! about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/n…

readthedocs's tweet image. Our February newsletter is out:

* Scheduled downtime on February 14 for DB maintenance 
* Flyout position can now be easily changed.
* We moved our docs to `docs.readthedocs.com`
* Lots more!

about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/n…

Read the Docs will be having a scheduled downtime on Friday, February 14 at 2:00pm PST (5:00pm EST, 22:00 UTC). This will apply to both Community and Business users, and will last 2 hours. We expect downtime to be 15-20 minutes per site. Read more: about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/02/p…


We're starting to promote our support for other doctools, starting with mdBook. You can see how to quickly get started and a basic example repository in our documentation: docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intr…

readthedocs's tweet image. We're starting to promote our support for other doctools, starting with mdBook. You can see how to quickly get started and a basic example repository in our documentation:

docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable/intr…

We've put together a blog post that shares our product vision for Read the Docs. The platform has been in transition from a Sphinx-focused platform to a docs as code platform that works with any tool. Please read the post and share any feedback. about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/01/2…

readthedocs's tweet image. We've put together a blog post that shares our product vision for Read the Docs. The platform has been in transition from a Sphinx-focused platform to a docs as code platform that works with any tool.

Please read the post and share any feedback.

about.readthedocs.com/blog/2025/01/2…

We had a production incident on Read the Docs Community that caused some builds and API requests to fail from 8am to 10am Pacific Time today. All issues are resolved, and builds should be happening normally again.


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