GitHub's Documentation Team transitioned from a complex Rails-based setup to a streamlined Jekyll 2.0 static site on GitHub Pages to enhance their documentation workflow. This move allowed them to simplify the deployment process, improve site speed, and enable features like versioned content and reusable text snippets, known as conrefs. By leveraging Jekyll's core capabilities and minimizing custom plugins, they maintained their preferred Markdown writing style and integrated a faster, client-side search with lunr-js. This transition not only aligned with GitHub's existing workflows, such as using pull requests for editorial reviews, but also made their documentation process more efficient and accessible, benefiting both the team and GitHub users who utilize GitHub Pages for their projects.