# New User documentation **URL:** \ **Category:** Misc\ **Tags:** documentation\ **Created:** [December 30, 2018, 10:29pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/new-user-documentation/61847 "2018-12-30T22:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 64
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Rowe](https://community.openhab.org/user_avatar/community.openhab.org/andrew_rowe/32/37075_2.png) [@Andrew\_Rowe](https://community.openhab.org/u/Andrew_Rowe)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.openhab.org/t/new-user-documentation/61847/64 "2019-07-30T17:51:25Z")
> [@Kim\_Andersen](#): > > So someone needs to grap the ball and do it. Kim This is an old thread. It sort of sparked a movement to try to make the new user docs better. If you think they are bad now, you should have seen them before. @lipp_markus (who is a professional documentation writer) rewrote the whole new user doc. He did a fantastic job and carrying on about it is almost insulting to the effort I myself made and Markus borders on insulting. Here is a link to the (now closed) thread. > [@\[CLOSED\] "Introduction" in docs: proposed rewrite](https://community.openhab.org/t/closed-introduction-in-docs-proposed-rewrite/62772): > > Edit: this discussion has been morphed into a pull request on github: [https://github.com/openhab/openhab-docs/pull/850](https://github.com/openhab/openhab-docs/pull/850); please continue discussions there (if any) I am starting this topic to propose an edit/rewrite of the Introduction section of the docs. This attempt has been triggered by many discussion here in the forum to lower the entrance hurdle to the docs. A couple more remarks: Happy if someone with more forum powers than me wants to change this to a wiki for communal editing if des… I may close this thread as well because this is a point less discussion as Rich has said. Thanks Rich, you put it better then I ever could --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openhab.org/t/new-user-documentation/61847)._