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[Ignotus Peverell <igno.peverell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There may be a misunderstanding. I'm not suggesting an outreach effort to attract more attention or a communication platform that would dress ourselves up into what we're not. I'm merely suggesting an additional medium for those specific reasons:

- Gitter is very ephemeral and we end up repeating many times the same thing. A forum is both more perennial and linkable (and has stickies).
- This mailing-list seems to be intimadating and clunky for most.
- We would benefit from better categorization (including a more fenced off zone for price discussions and common bikeshedding we're already seeing).
- There's a whole world of people, which most technically inclined folks may dismiss too easily, that can be both extremely helpful *and* aren't the "to the moon" type.

Most of the feedback has been positive so I think I'll go ahead but I thought some additional clarification might be helpful.

- Igno

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions
> Local Time: 15 January 2018 10:37 PM
> UTC Time: 15 January 2018 22:37
> From: nass769@xxxxxxxxx
> To: Kodadi Jawhar <spacejoe@xxxxxxxxx>
> Quentin LE SCELLER <qlesceller@xxxxxxxxx>, mimblewimble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mimblewimble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Due to the high degree of hype in the market, I would consider it desirable that a project like this should not go to much public in this stage. Quality over quantity indicate the most potential for success in projects aimed at the longer term. Unless the there is a wish for bigger exposure...
>
> Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone
> Op 11 jan. 2018 om 21:27 heeft Kodadi Jawhar <spacejoe@xxxxxxxxx> het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Hi all ! First time i participate in this mailing list.
>> - About the forum : Having a forum is an excellent idea, i would suggest Flarum, ( http://flarum.org/features/ ) or Discourse . They are both great and modern discussion solutions.  (But in Mho, Flarum is better : Lighter pages (144 kb vs 650 for discourse), more elegant and mobile friendly frontend and backoffice
>> - About Reddit : Reddit could be a great place to attract a larger audience. But most of subreddits are full of trolls and memes, except for Monero. I love the way they split the community into multiples subreddits "Xmrtrader, monero comunity, Monero, and an other one just for memes)
>> - Other alternatives a telegram group, an IRC channel, or Slack. IRC could be a great place for live discussions.
>>
>> Idealy we start with the forum, and as the community grow, we go to other alternatives.
>>
>> (Excuse my english, i only can write good french)
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Quentin LE SCELLER <qlesceller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I also think it’s a good idea to have a more user friendly space for a non-dev/larger audience.
>>> Another example is Zcash Forum with https://forum.z.cash (which is a discourse).
>>>
>>>> Le 11 janv. 2018 à 13:00, 0xb100d <0xb1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>>>>
>>>> So reddit covers our price discussion and other basic discussion, the gitter and mailing list is for technical/philosophical discussion, what are we missing? I could get on board with hosting our own forum to have some more historical autonomy compared to relying on reddit, but "getting started early" will still be true a year from now. too much too soon is a huge point of failure in startups. not that I don't have faith in grin!
>>>>
>>>> cynic,
>>>> 0x-art
>>>>
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>>>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Mimblewimble] Community discussions
>>>>> Local Time: January 11, 2018 7:48 AM
>>>>> UTC Time: January 11, 2018 3:48 PM
>>>>> From: averytomek@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> To: Lui Kohl <lui.kohl@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>> mimblewimble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mimblewimble@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>> I like Reddit but it seems to be full of people only concerned with the price of coins and not as much interest in the actual technology.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 9:46 AM, Lui Kohl <lui.kohl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Why not improve the Reddit community? It's already existing quite a nice small community. With more interaction, regular threads etc. could be made even better.
>>>>>>
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