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sneak ◴[19 Jun 25 03:37 UTC] No.44315221[source]▶
Can we please stop standardizing on putting things in the root?

/.well-known/ exists for this purpose.

example.com/.well-known/llms.txt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI

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jph00 ◴[19 Jun 25 05:42 UTC] No.44315797[source]▶
You can't just put things there any time you want - the RFC requires that they go through a registration process.

Having said that, this won't work for llms.txt, since in the next version of the proposal they'll be allowed at any level of the path, not only the root.

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politelemon ◴[19 Jun 25 07:18 UTC] No.44316300[source]▶
> You can't just put things there any time you want - the RFC requires that they go through a registration process.

Actually, I can for two reasons. First is of course the RFC mentions that items can be registered after the fact, if it's found that a particular well-known suffix is being widely used. But the second is a bit more chaotic - website owners are under no obligation to consult a registry, much like port registrations; in many cases they won't even know it exists and may think of it as a place that should reflect their mental model.

It can make things awkward and difficult though, that is true, but that comes with the free text nature of the well-known space. That's made evident in the Github issue linked, a large group of very smart people didn't know that there was a registry for it.

https://github.com/AnswerDotAI/llms-txt/issues/2#issuecommen...

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1. jph00 ◴[19 Jun 25 09:48 UTC] No.44317019[source]▶
There was no "large group of very smart people" behind llms.txt. It was just me. And I'm very familiar with the registry, and it doesn't work for this particular case IMO (although other folks are welcome to register it if they feel otherwise, of course).