Received: from sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com ([172.29.43.192] helo=mx.sourceforge.net) by sfs-ml-2.v29.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1SPial-0001Bi-Tk for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 02 May 2012 23:04:15 +0000 X-ACL-Warn: Received: from mail-vb0-f47.google.com ([209.85.212.47]) by sog-mx-2.v43.ch3.sourceforge.com with esmtps (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76) id 1SPiak-0006bu-Mv for bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 02 May 2012 23:04:15 +0000 Received: by vbbfr13 with SMTP id fr13so1269465vbb.34 for ; Wed, 02 May 2012 16:04:09 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-originating-ip:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=F1ZLbaPDurOvbYPAxb9OTBueYnKXVvmsV1Dxc9bsyv8=; b=F4UDmprrgsh3qMDMtYSQQOtHtxpNCsN9WO1/Hj7X6sRE/oTsP4Ztf4+EdLzeQzNje/ jq1jukJvabFs3oQ0Z19KO9cwbpsh1bVtyl5JPofaOc73xR1MyJfYrVgrj15Rr4cxdDqt rBh3KyyfyFulh8izgzDu9TtcG4zP5iAiSgYJKPUJ4W5ZCT0WM2HtDpYtrYclga+rOCM2 OY13J8UrUuecvSyalyBtfDSr440EQUEZ9+TPTDCkmVQB26uIs+6tpgofyEtBHbeklxi4 GHJEkYWgSCadG/b+2SFKYisBYiJgFsImF48/JghYj/HA3l6cQSR+ayw0srB3NRcNFGDN Bkdw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.22.162 with SMTP id e2mr8432925vdf.76.1335999848800; Wed, 02 May 2012 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.109.33 with HTTP; Wed, 2 May 2012 16:04:08 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [99.43.178.25] In-Reply-To: <1335808239.18613.YahooMailNeo@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <1335808239.18613.YahooMailNeo@web121006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 19:04:08 -0400 Message-ID: From: Jeff Garzik To: Amir Taaki Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl6He9fT1AoChj34mi9d4zpL1G9/56ILKvH8iqRPj5cWrvcmHaRkOJYNJAjSfMoMZDYf7yg X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: Spam Filtering performed by mx.sourceforge.net. See http://spamassassin.org/tag/ for more details. X-Headers-End: 1SPiak-0006bu-Mv Cc: "bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net" Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] new bitcoin.org clients page X-BeenThere: bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 23:04:16 -0000 On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Amir Taaki wrote: > Check it :) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/pull/34 Personally, all this seems far too focused on a centralized website (bitcoin.org), and presents far too many choices at once to the user. On bitcoin.org (registered by Satoshi), I would rather see the Satoshi reference client and perhaps an "other clients" link on the wiki. Modern websites are working hard to _reduce_ the number of download links, not _increase_ them. See, e.g. http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora where a single download choice is presented, and then an "other options" link is below the great big download button. Rather than fighting over what a particular bitcoin.org page should look like, why not maintain an independently managed BitcoinClients.org website? Or GetBitcoinClient.org or somesuch. Solve this problem in a distributed fashion, rather than stuffing it all onto bitcoin.org. Bitcoin.org, IMO, is the home of the "reference project" not the entire bitcoin community. Emphasizing that months ago was why the forum was moved to bitcointalk.org. -- Jeff Garzik exMULTI, Inc. jgarzik@exmulti.com