The bitcoin-dev mailing list, readable: 15 years, one page per thread, daily

[windpath]

A readable mirror of the bitcoin-dev mailing list is up at learnbitcoin.com/archive: 24,699 messages in 3,292 threads, June 2011 to this week, refreshed daily.

What it does:

• One page per thread, messages in date order, quoted text folded, footers and signatures dropped, addresses obscured. Every message links to its original and has a permalink by Message-ID (/archive/m/<Message-ID>).
• Topic timelines: 37 of them (block size, SegWit, Taproot, covenants, RBF and mempool policy, privacy, quantum, the BIP process, soft fork activation, hard forks, mining, sidechains, light clients and so on), each every thread on the subject in date order with the related BIPs.
• A page for every BIP the list discussed (159), with the threads that proposed, revised or argued it.
• A page for everyone with ten or more messages (344), with their years, topics and threads. Spellings one address used are merged; if a merge is wrong, say so and it is fixed the same day.
• The numbers by year since 2011, and a feed of the latest threads.

Nothing is rewritten and there are no machine summaries on message pages; the words are the authors’. The only text of ours is the paragraph at the top of each topic. If a thread is mis-threaded, a topic is missing an obvious thread, or a name is wrong, post it here and it gets fixed and credited.

https://www.learnbitcoin.com/archive

[ABCbits]

Having more archive/mirror for mailing-list is good to have. I have few suggestion,
1. On https://www.learnbitcoin.com/archive/people, mention same person may have multiple name/display name. I notice "Greg Maxwell" and "Gregory Maxwell" shown on that page seperately.
2. On https://www.learnbitcoin.com/archive/search, the text area mention "year:2015". If there are other filter that already exist, consider mentioning it.

[windpath]

Thanks, both good catches.

1. You were right about Maxwell. He wrote from a gmail address for years and from xiph.org in between, and the archive only folds names together within one address, so he ended up with two pages. Merged this morning. The same check turned up six more people in the same spot (Sergio Lerner, Tom Zander, btcdrak and three others), all merged now, and the old pages redirect.

2. year: is the only filter so far. Fair point that the placeholder makes it look like there is a whole syntax to learn. The hint will say what it does.