Most other sites I know don't have such icons. I only included it here to catch-the-eye for the Quickstart button, which is now second.

If you feel strongly about consistency, I'd prefer dropping the icon for the Quickstart button.

Given the choice, I think I'd rather have the eye-catch than consistency in this case.

I dont have a problem with this directly but GH link should be very easy to access. It feels a little hidden now on the bottom.

I dont have a problem with this directly but GH link should be very easy to access. It feels a little hidden now on the bottom.

True (that the links to GH aren't prominent), and that is by design. From a documentation-website design / UX point of view, it is quite conventional to have links to the GH repo in the footer, rather than a Call-To-Action (CTA) button. CTA buttons are precious real estate used to direct readers to where they (most of them) need to go. For example, see https://kubernetes.io/.

Looking at Google Search Console results, the most popular etcd search is "etcd", which returns etcd.io followed by the link to the etcd repo, as top hits. The assumption is that if a reader clicks on the docs site, they want docs, not the repo. If they want the repo, then it's the second result in Google Search (for example) and the assumption is that they'd have clicked that link directly. Of course, there are other ways that readers can reach the site, but let's stop there for now.

Unless you feel strongly about this, I'd suggest we keep it as is. Still, thanks for the feedback @hexfusion.

@hexfusion - I'm not against making the link to GH more prominent, though it might be easier to assess the best way to do so once we've landed more of the new IA (#267). If you still feel that this is worth fighting for :), ... could you please open an issue? Thanks