Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Brendan O.
Is there any reason we should use discourse over a traditional forum? Just curious as to if there's any advantages. > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions > Local Time: January 11, 2018 12:14 AM > UTC Time: January 11, 2018 6:14 AM > From:

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Catheryne Nicholson
I concur that it's better to start now. I spent a lot of time reading the bitcointalk forum to educate myself prior to getting into Bitcoin. That forum was also where I found Vitalik's annotation of Bitcoin code, years before he started Ethereum. I found it extraordinarily useful. Having

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Crypto Dinosaur
I’m new to this mailing list, but part of the reason I wanted to join was because I was looking for that “space between development discussions and the troll army.” Glad you’re thinking about doing this. Since this isn’t a scammy/promotional project, I think the initial community will be

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Ignotus Peverell
> I don't see the purpose. I don't disagree with a lot of what you wrote after that but here are some reasons: - Maybe I'm an hopeless idealist, but I think there's a space between development discussions and the troll army. I'm hoping that space is very wide and that there are a lot of

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread 0xb100d
I don't see the purpose. Maybe with mainnet release, but for the time being we have relatively active subreddits already, and as it should be most of the discussion is developer oriented and we have solid channels for that. One of the problems with other protocols is too much

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Avery Tomek
Sounds like a good idea! It would be nice if we had a central forum/chat we could all contribute ideas or questions, etc. If there is anything I can do just let me know! Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 10, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Ignotus Peverell > wrote: > > Hi all, >

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Iam Ozymandias
I think that would be good. > On Jan 10, 2018, at 7:16 PM, Derek Waltchack wrote: > > Sounds like a very good idea > > -Derek (sent from my iPhone) > > > Derek R. Waltchack | Partner > 1616 2nd Avenue South | Suite 100 Birmingham, AL 35233 > p) 205-223-2607 w)

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Derek Waltchack
Sounds like a very good idea -Derek (sent from my iPhone) [cid:0A5E52C3-7D17-440D-9FB6-1AF8B2C8C68C@swire.local] Derek R. Waltchack | Partner 1616 2nd Avenue South | Suite 100 Birmingham, AL 35233 p) 205-223-2607 w) shanwalt.com

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Andrew Bellenie
+1 On 10 January 2018 at 23:05, Alexander Leishman wrote: > I'm a fan of Discourse. I've used it before and it's quite nice. The > Elixir language project uses that. > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:50 PM Ignotus Peverell < > igno.pever...@protonmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all,

Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Alexander Leishman
I'm a fan of Discourse. I've used it before and it's quite nice. The Elixir language project uses that. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 2:50 PM Ignotus Peverell < igno.pever...@protonmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been playing with the idea of having a more open mode of > communication for people

[Mimblewimble] Community discussions

2018-01-10 Thread Ignotus Peverell
Hi all, I've been playing with the idea of having a more open mode of communication for people to participate. Both this mailing list and gitter are very developer focused (not to mention clunky, when it comes to launchpad). This is not to propose a replacement of what we have now for