> I strongly agree, but this is *why* I suggested moving it to the wiki. I > recently had to choose an XMPP client and I looked on xmpp.org - after a > frustrating experience with their listing [1]
Probably because their listing is even more useless than any of the proposals that were presented here. Thank goodness it didn't end up like that. Their table doesn't even attempt to list features or differentiating aspects of each client. I think the XMPP guys have pretty much given up on directly marketing the system to end users. > - more up-to-date (anyone can update them) Fortunately reasonable clients don't appear/disappear/change that often. > - more in touch with users: I think by "users" you mean, geeks who understand wiki syntax. Because that's what it'll end up trending towards. I don't believe a wiki would reflect the needs of your average person. It's still better to have these arguments here and try to find a user-focussed consensus than hope one will converge from a wiki. > If you want to see "the result of > internal politics", the current client page is a good example. We > couldn't agree on the columns for a feature matrix, so now we just have > walls of text. Inability to agree on columns isn't why the page looks like that. I know because I'm the one who argued for the current design. It looks like that because feature matrices aren't especially helpful for newbies to make a decision, especially when the "features" in question were often things like how they handled the block chain or which protocol standards they support, ie, things only of interest to developers. It's much easier to communicate the differences to people with a short piece of text, and maybe if there is no obvious way to explain why you'd want to use a given client, that's a good sign it's not worth listing there. Otherwise you end up like xmpp.org. > Some of the options that are de-facto the most popular > with users like BlockChain.info or just using your MtGox account are not > mentioned at all. It's true that bitcoin.org needs to be conservative. That said, I'd like there to be sections for them too, actually. I agree that risk isn't purely about how it's implemented and that whilst we might like to push particular ideologies around protocols or code licensing, that isn't especially relevant to end users who have different priorities. Track record counts for a lot as well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
