The best documentation I’ve ever encountered is that of PHP. Hands down. And that’s curious because it’s not particularly unique. It has consistent navigation, sure. It is very complete, sure.  All those are important points, but what really makes it incredibly useful is the community participation it gets. Very often the comments on any given page of PHP documentation address exactly the issue you’re having.

Needless to say this is a role model we wish to emulate. So in true startup mentality, we slapped a set of Disqus Comments on there. Took five minutes and it enables users to interact with our developers directly. Eventually, we’ll put in a comment system that isn’t JavaScript based and hence allows the comments to be indexed by search engines. For now however, this is a very quick and hopefully very useful support feature.

So take a look at our API documentation and please share your experiences with it, so others can benefit!