Hugo server doesn't serve until I save file? (Debugging difficulties)

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This should be _index.md

But that’s my homepage (not a list page), shouldn’t it stay as is?

You don’t have a default list.html template.

Yeah, I won’t have any list pages aside from /events/, so I’m keeping the layout as sparse as possible to avoid confusion/duplication. Hugo doesn’t seem to look for a default list template in this arrangement.

What I did notice now is that Hugo doesn’t see my files until I save them! So it returns blanks because it thinks /content/events/ is empty!

I rebooted in-between so this doesn’t appear to be some synchronization issue with my text editor. The project is located in a regular filesystem along with my OS, nothing unusual. Weird!

Edit: Someone stumbled upon the same problem it seems.