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Title: Announcements section?
Post by: Mike Hearn on May 08, 2011, 07:53:49 PM
Major new pieces of software or services of interest to all BitCoiners are currently announced in the discuss or development sections. It's easy to miss them there and they get drowned out by other chat.

A section specifically for announcements of global interest would be good. Examples of things that'd be appropriate:

  • New exchanges, credit card gateways etc.
  • New versions of BitCoin or alternative implementations
  • New projects built on BitCoin technology

New products/services that are just sold in BitCoins would stay in the marketplace section or Trade wiki page.


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: caveden on May 08, 2011, 07:58:20 PM
I like the idea. It's already quite difficult to follow the forum, better categories like these could help.

RSS per category would be good too.


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: eMansipater on May 10, 2011, 09:05:38 AM
We could have a combined announcements/introductions board, since there have been calls for the latter as well.


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: Stephen Gornick on May 30, 2011, 11:25:17 PM
Major new pieces of software or services of interest to all BitCoiners are currently announced in the discuss or development sections. It's easy to miss them there and they get drowned out by other chat.

A section specifically for announcements of global interest would be good. Examples of things that'd be appropriate:

Most days now there are north of 2,000 posts each.

So +1, or I vote YEA, or "Bump", or pretty please, or is bounty needed, or ?


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: kiba on May 30, 2011, 11:40:24 PM
I fourth!  :D


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: zamgo on May 30, 2011, 11:59:23 PM
I fifth.  Finding announcements is getting difficult with so much traffic.  A dedicated section would be great.


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: divergenta on May 31, 2011, 06:10:01 PM
I think this is a great idea. It would simply things very much.


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: kiba on June 02, 2011, 06:33:00 AM
How do we get the administrators to implement it?


Title: Re: Announcements section?
Post by: Stephen Gornick on June 11, 2011, 10:34:47 AM
So? What about it?

To get started now, how about an IRC channel then.
  - #bitcoin-announcements (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#bitcoin-announcements)