Problem with Standard Library Website

[John Souvestre]

Hi all.

 

Is anyone else seeing a problem with the Standard Library website?  It was working fine for me about 2 days ago, but I’m having a very strange problem with it now.

 

The problem is only with libraries which have no description – just a blank line.  This is the case for about 80% of the libraries which have no sub-libraries.  For example: archive, compress, container, database, debug, etc.  But crypto, encoding, hash, etc, etc - work just fine.

 

There seems to be no information at all about the top level of the library.  When I click on “archive” all I see is the sub-menu for it.  Nothing about what is in the top level of the archive itself.  It’s as if I clicked on the arrow to the left of “archive”.

 

I see the same behavior on 3 computers:

• PC running Windows 10, using both Chrome and Firefox, Go v1.25.1 windows/amd64

    Also, disabling both my AV program and VPN didn’t help.

• PC running Windows 7, using Chrome, Go v1.15.13 windows/amd64
• Phone, Android, using Chrome, Go not installed

 

It seems that the possibly the website has trouble getting the description line for some libraries, and this also prevents it from showing the top-level content.

 

John

 

    John Souvestre    New Orleans LA, USA    504-454-0899

 

[Brian Candler]

If you could provide specific URLs that would be helpful - along with screenshots if you think they are rendering wrongly.

You mention "archive" - this has two sub-levels, archive/tar and archive/zip

https://pkg.go.dev/archive

which links to

https://pkg.go.dev/archive/t...@go1.25.1
https://pkg.go.dev/archive/z...@go1.25.1

There is indeed no description at the top level (archive) - but as far as I can see, the go source does not contain any description at that level anyway:

https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/archive

Is this a change in behaviour? What did you see before?

[John Souvestre]

Hi Brian.

 

The URL for the Standard Libraries:  https://pkg.go.dev/std   I have attached a screenshot (#1).  Notice that some descriptions are missing.  I seem to recall that all of the archives used to have the descriptions.

 

I used to be able to click on the arrow to get the sub-menu.  And when I clicked on the title I got to its screen.

 

Now, no matter where on this line I click, it expands the sub-level menu.  There is no way to get to the archive screen.  What would the URL for it be?

 

If I manually go to https://pkg.go.dev/archive I get just the sub-level menu.  I have attached a screenshot (#2)

 

John

 

    John Souvestre    New Orleans LA, USA    504-454-0899

 

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[Jan Mercl]

On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM 'John Souvestre' via golang-nuts
<golan...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> Now, no matter where on this line I click, it expands the sub-level menu. There is no way to get to the archive screen.

Because there is no "archive" package in the std lib.

[John Souvestre]

Hi Jan.

I just realized that, after looking through my Chrome history. I guess that I just forgot that some of the libraries had ONLY sub-levels. Duh!

John

John Souvestre New Orleans LA, USA 504-454-0899