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Ademan 2y ago

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-November/022134.html

> Our current mailing list host, Linux Foundation, has indicated for years

that they have wanted to stop hosting mailing lists, which would mean

the bitcoin-dev mailing list would need to move somewhere else. We

temporarily avoided that, but recently LF has informed a moderator that

they will cease hosting any mailing lists later this year.

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> Many other projects have moved from mailing lists to forums (eg https://discuss.python.org/ – see https://lwn.net/Articles/901744/ ; or https://ethresear.ch/),

which seem easier to maintain and moderate, and can have lots of

advanced features beyond plaintext, maybe-threading and

maybe-HTML-markup.

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> Who would host the forum? Would there be agreement around which forum software to use or which forum host? What about bitcointalk.org or delvingbitcoin.org?

There are many options available. Maybe what we actually want isn’t so

much a discussion forum, as an 'arxiv of our own' where anons can post

BIP drafts and the like?

Can nostr step up here? Other than the relative immaturity of the software ecosystem, it seems like a pretty good fit. The only missing piece mentioned is email notifications, and that would be easy to whip up.

I'd also suggest (again) that we need a rich text note, different from long form articles, and probably some easy way to dump a thread into a tarball for archival, but otherwise, nostr seems like a decent fit.

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mleku 2y ago

it is retarded that markdown is still not the standard note format.

also, i have been saying since nostr:nprofile1qqsw4v882mfjhq9u63j08kzyhqzqxqc8tgf740p4nxnk9jdv02u37ncpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuumwdae8gtnnda3kjctv9uq35amnwvaz7tmsw4exzanfv3sjumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsem3d22 asserted that they are "posts" that nostr resembles a mailing list system and thus they are posts. posts.

i'd love to help with something like this but i'd guess there is gonna be a lot of to and fro in deciding where they are going to move to next.

email is a real pig of a protocol and it is time to stop using it. the whole thing is practically monopolised by Google and Microsoft now.

i think as far as the requirements for the bitcoin discussion that the main thing is going to be filters with moderated membership lists, because it can't be turning into a spam fest, even if people do reply randomly to them they need to only show on topic and relevant content and that means a little council of gatekeepers, no different from now, just that this isn't something any nostr client has yet.