Douglas Huff [ARCHIVE] on Nostr: 📅 Original date posted:2011-07-16 🗒️ Summary of this message: Developers ...
📅 Original date posted:2011-07-16
🗒️ Summary of this message: Developers discuss the negative perception of Bitcoin forums and consider removing or replacing them to improve the project's image.
📝 Original message:On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith <witchspace81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on this
>> list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people
>> (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have a major
>> influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as developers look
>> really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring down
>> world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario.
>>
>> It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simply be
>> a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it for
>> soliciting user feedback on UI features.
>
> I agree completely.
>
> While the owner of the forums and bitcoin.org is Missing In Action and
> has not responded to emails in more than a week, we do have access to
> change the main www.bitcoin.org home page, to link to another forum.
>
> Or we could simply de-link the current forum, as a first step.
I say just kill the forum.bitcoin.org DNS entry along with it.
--
Douglas Huff
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🗒️ Summary of this message: Developers discuss the negative perception of Bitcoin forums and consider removing or replacing them to improve the project's image.
📝 Original message:On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith <witchspace81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I know most of the people actively working on bitcoin (and active on this
>> list) ignore the forums, for good reason. But there's a lot of people
>> (everyone new?) that think the most active members of the forum have a major
>> influence on the project's direction. Which is making us as developers look
>> really bad. As if we're some political faction that wants to bring down
>> world governments and unleash a global anarchistic doomsday scenario.
>>
>> It really needs to be more down-to-earth. Ideally, the forum would simply be
>> a way to communicate with the *actual* users. For example, I use it for
>> soliciting user feedback on UI features.
>
> I agree completely.
>
> While the owner of the forums and bitcoin.org is Missing In Action and
> has not responded to emails in more than a week, we do have access to
> change the main www.bitcoin.org home page, to link to another forum.
>
> Or we could simply de-link the current forum, as a first step.
I say just kill the forum.bitcoin.org DNS entry along with it.
--
Douglas Huff
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