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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti.com>
To: John Smith <witchspace81@gmail.com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums...
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 19:35:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+8xBpduc=vn_Q7Kw0m+VkuHjz0FTxjDZB+hOPLnRJcuh49gJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJNQ0svFL6JMpcRNyJ=xpv0wrn1EpGOUG7ff2-JXH5BKJVHZqQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Smith <witchspace81@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.

-- 
Jeff Garzik
exMULTI, Inc.
jgarzik@exmulti.com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-16 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-16  9:34 [Bitcoin-development] The forums John Smith
2011-07-16 10:54 ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-16 11:07   ` John Smith
2011-07-16 11:20     ` John Smith
2011-07-16 23:35       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2011-07-17  1:16         ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-17  2:00           ` Jeff Garzik
2011-07-17  2:12             ` Robert McKay
2011-07-17 10:46               ` Matt Corallo
2011-07-17 17:12                 ` Douglas Huff
2011-07-18  4:36                   ` John Smith
     [not found]               ` <CAJNQ0suMJAApg-fK70BBAHRT_41jc4-HMwxaHHccg0O+MOvV0A@mail.gmail.com>
2011-07-17 10:59                 ` John Smith
2011-07-17 12:30                   ` Luke-Jr
2011-07-18 20:08 Chris Acheson
2011-07-19  6:54 ` John Smith
2011-07-19 17:07 ` Chris Acheson
2011-08-12 17:32   ` Vladimir Marchenko

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