From: Douglas Huff <dhuff@jrbobdobbs•org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@exmulti•com>
Cc: bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] The forums...
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:16:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83816D44-004A-43C4-AFFE-ED1BABD90144@jrbobdobbs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+8xBpduc=vn_Q7Kw0m+VkuHjz0FTxjDZB+hOPLnRJcuh49gJw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jul 16, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.
I say just kill the forum.bitcoin.org DNS entry along with it.
--
Douglas Huff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-17 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-16 9:34 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
2011-07-17 1:16 ` Douglas Huff [this message]
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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