Hey Andrew, totally fair feedback!
I actually addressed this in detail some time ago - check out this post: Hologram Documentation Updates/Feedback - #21 by bartblast
TLDR: The Hologram website is meant to evolve into an interactive educational platform - think component playgrounds (like Storybook), real-time demos, community showcases, AI-powered assistance deeply integrated with framework internals, and more. HexDocs would either make some of these impossible or constantly get in the way. The site is also built with Hologram itself, which is valuable for dogfooding and as a real-world showcase of the framework.
That said, nothing prevents us from adding the features you like about HexDocs - search, Dash compatibility - to our own docs. Those are on the radar. Dash support is definitely doable with a custom site, and this kind of thing would be a great area for community contributions eventually. As for h in IEx - that actually already works for Hologram since every public function is documented with @doc. There’s also an API reference on HexDocs: https://hexdocs.pm/hologram
As for contributing to docs - I do plan to make it possible to suggest edits directly from the website. There are a few things I need to build first though, like a macro component feature, before that can happen.
And yes, Elixir Forum is a perfectly fine place for this kind of feedback!
