What's the fundamental difference between the forum and the existing (centralized) dev mailing lists, which have worked reasonably well for over a decade?
Bitcoiners learned nothing from the BitcoinTalk shitshowS.
We now have most flocking to a centralized Forum again for technical discussion. http://delvingbitcoin.org
Nothing against the maintainers, i appreciate the effort. But FFS, can we not use centralized sites?
Discussion
the emails are on everyone's inbox, the only threat is of new email censorship. the forum It's a closed, a private DB. Aside from standard censorship. bad actors or admins can change any information, erase information, etc... Also not possible to keep archive as the date is private. Overall regression from email.
There's an archive here based on the public api: https://github.com/jamesob/delving-bitcoin-archive
Code for mirroring yourself: https://github.com/jamesob/discourse-archive
This was discussed on the ML: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022142.html