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From: Keagan McClelland <keagan.mcclelland@gmail.com>
To: "David A. Harding" <dave@dtrt.org>,
	 Bitcoin Protocol Discussion
	<bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2023 13:03:09 -0800	[thread overview]
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I also think that good archives are extremely important. Far more important
than being a medium of discussion is capturing all of that discussion for
posterity. An unbelievable amount of knowledge capital has been built up in
the mailing list over the years and given that Bitcoin is a system that
needs to survive complete turnover in its contributor base, it's of extreme
importance that we have a system that can capture the archive.

While Nostr might be good towards the end of being very resilient it isn't
mature enough to have good UX's built up around it wherein people with a
variety of backgrounds can engage it. Personally, I think the email UX
leaves a lot to be desired but at least it's accessible to a lot of people.
I don't think I can say the same for Nostr yet.

I won't opine much further on the solution but I think the properties we
need to solve for are:

1. Archive is effectively permanent
2. Accessible to a wide audience
3. Data format is not proprietary and isn't tied to the success or failure
of a particular organization

In principle I think that Nostr can offer a lot in the long term towards
this goal, but it isn't really an immediate solution to this problem.

Keags

On Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 12:07 PM David A. Harding via bitcoin-dev <
bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> On 2023-11-07 05:37, Bryan Bishop via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> > What about [...] delvingbitcoin.org?
>
> I'm only willing to consider discussion groups that provide good
> archives, so I think it's worth noting that James O'Beirne has written
> code[1] and is currently maintaining a git repo[2] with a backup of
> Delving Bitcoin discussion.  See his post[3] for additional details.
>
> In addition to providing an archive, I currently find it to be nice way
> to quickly skim all posts made to the forum since I last checked (plus I
> see edits)[4]:
>
> $ cd delving-bitcoin-archive/
> $ git pull
> $ git log -p archive/rendered-topics/
>
> I think some technical discussions were already migrating to Delving
> Bitcoin before the shutdown notice and I expect more discussions to move
> there in the future even if the current mailing list is relocated to a
> new platform.  Knowing that discussions are archived in a way that I can
> easily replicate was key to me feeling comfortable putting significant
> time into reading and writing posts on Delving Bitcoin, so I wanted to
> share that information here.
>
> -Dave
>
> [1] https://github.com/jamesob/discourse-archive
> [2] https://github.com/jamesob/delving-bitcoin-archive
> [3] https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/public-archive-for-delving-bitcoin/87/6
> [4] Plus every commit makes me laugh.  James O'Beirne's commit robot is
> called "jamesobot"
> _______________________________________________
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> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org
> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
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  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-07 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-07 15:37 [bitcoin-dev] Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list Bryan Bishop
2023-11-07 16:12 ` Andrew Chow
2023-11-08  9:05   ` email
2023-11-07 17:03 ` Ademan
2023-11-07 18:14   ` Andrew Chow
2023-11-07 19:41     ` Christopher Allen
2023-11-07 22:24       ` Ryan Breen
2023-11-07 22:59       ` Peter Todd
2023-11-07 20:15     ` Ademan
2023-11-09  4:03     ` William Casarin
2023-11-07 23:07   ` Peter Todd
2023-11-07 17:48 ` Andreas Schildbach
2023-11-07 20:07 ` David A. Harding
2023-11-07 21:03   ` Keagan McClelland [this message]
2023-11-07 20:57 ` Tao Effect
2023-11-07 22:10 ` ponymontana
2023-11-07 23:08 ` Peter Todd
2023-11-08 14:29   ` Emil Pfeffer
2023-11-08  3:56 ` Anthony Towns
2023-11-13  2:58 ` Antoine Riard
2023-11-13 15:05 ` Overthefalls
2023-11-13 18:51   ` alicexbt
2023-11-14 15:32     ` Overthefalls
2023-11-11 10:54 vjudeu
2024-01-04 13:50 ` Brad Morrison
     [not found] <mailman.15.1699963203.5599.bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org>
2023-11-14 12:32 ` Ali Sherief

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