bitcoin/bitcoin.org — pull request #34 by genjix (2012-04-30 17:43:00+00:00)
Title: Clients

ok this is a modification of luke-jr's multiclient branch more in line with what people were discussing in that pull request.

You can check this site by adding this to your /etc/hosts file:

176.31.24.241 bitcoin.org

Images are 260x200.

I intended to put a section called "Website Frontends" but I do not know enough about the online wallet scene to really make any informed comment there. I know for certain that Strongcoin is having problems after several of the key developers left, and when I went to load blockchain.info, the site was down.

I think a good policy is that if a project doesn't show activity for 2 months then it is assumed to be inactive. I favour making a bullet list at the bottom of the page which is greyed out to record old clients for historical posterity.

It would be nice to have an additional row underneath 'Website: ...' called 'Platforms:' with a logo for Windows, Linux, Mac, Android .etc but I wasn't sure how to add that in Jekyll so we'll leave that for now as it is non-critical.

Other ideas:

- I eventually hope for another tab called 'Backends' with Bitcoin, libbitcoin and BitCoinJ listed. I deliberately kept them off this page (at tcatm's suggestion) because this should be beginner friendly whereas that 'Backend Implementation' is architecture/infrastructurally oriented.

- Would be good to have a 'Mining' tab with all the Bitcoin miners and some informative links as that is a topic many new Bitcoin users are interested in (despite it's silliness). Maybe a short description saying 'hey you are unlikely to make much money (if at all) and your time is better spent making services and being creative'.