Re: Draft of Git Rev News edition 18

From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Date: Aug 16, 2016, 21:27 UTC
Message-ID: <20160816212704.GA25034@dcvr>
In-Reply-To: <20160816093412.v3tenw4vyxipunah@x>

Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 09:30:27AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > It's a great pity that https://public-inbox.org/ is just
> > > directory index, not a true home page.
> > 
> > +Cc meta@public-inbox.org
> > 
> > I'm not sure one could do better while staying true to the
> > minimalist nature of plain-text email.
> > 
> > In the spirit of decentralization, there may not be /a/
> > homepage, but many.   Everything is meant to clonable with each
> > public-inbox, so maybe every public-inbox will have a code
> > branch attached to it with the source+docs bundled.
> 
> It'd be nice if it had a prominent list of all lists available; as far
> as I can tell, the main page has no link to /git/.

I'm not sure that's necessary; most of the traffic seems to come from /git/MESSAGE_ID/ links posted by others. So it's probably more inside-out exposure than anything.

As for other projects, I'm not aware of anybody else using it, yet. I have some small projects using it, but most of those are one-off throwaways and I'm not comfortable promoting those along with public-inbox. I admit: I'm not comfortable promoting anything I do, really.

I do wish more people would start using the .onions, though...