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Once ncdns is ready, add it to the Download page. Maybe we should add it as a "preview" now, like we're doing for Namecoin Core? Opinions? @hlandau @cassiniNMC

The Linux packages of 0.3.80 are served over HTTP; that's crap. Although this may be a moot point since we're switching to Namecoin Core very soon, maybe see namecoin/namecoin-legacy#231 for a suggested security workaround.

The main page in this repo is slightly reworded from the old site; we should get review/consensus of the rewording.

A wiki article on "Atomic Name-Trading" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

HL has been contributing heavily to the standardization efforts, I would like to add him in as an official team member.

Those of you who hang around on our IRC channels have probably seen Talos Secure Workstation come up a few times. For those of you who don't hang around IRC, Talos is a workstation/desktop with fully libre firmware (i.e. no Intel Management Engine) that's actually competitive in performance against current Intel hardware. It's developed by Raptor Engineering, who are responsible for porting a large fraction of the boards currently supported by Libreboot, so they actually have a track record of getting things done (unlike, say, Purism). Raptor is doing a crowdfund for Talos. It looks likely that Talos will get FSF "Respects Your Freedom" certification if it meets its funding goal, and Libreboot has endorsed the crowdfund.

This is relevant to our wider mission of making the Internet more resistant to wiretaps because U.S. intelligence and law enforcement don't bother pwning CA's; they prefer to pwn endpoints. Talos is a major step toward making endpoints more secure and trustworthy.

OU's CS dept is tentatively willing to fund the 250 USD "Log in with Us!" option for us, for the purpose of me porting Namecoin software to Talos.

Given that Talos's mission is aligned with ours, and that their crowdfund would benefit from some publicity, I'm suggesting mentioning Talos on the Namecoin Twitter account. The tweet would probably be a quote-tweet of a relevant tweet by Raptor, with a comment along the lines of "Decentralization and crypto won't help if the endpoints are backdoored. Talos improves endpoint trustworthiness. Support them if you can."

Thoughts? If there are no objections here in the next week, I'll post the tweet.

Move the News section of the old site into something on the new site.

The source code link for Namecoin 0.3.80 on the Download page is outdated, although I believe it still redirects to the correct place. It should be updated.

Quoting from: #58

we should also figure out how we want to organize the exchanges page, given that Bitsquare isn't a for-profit entity like centralized exchanges, and therefore it doesn't make sense to expect them to donate for higher placement.

WRT this upstart script here https://wiki.namecoin.org/index.php?title=Install_and_Configure_Namecoin#Upstart_Script

Upstart starts /bin/sh by default which doesn't define [[

As far as I can tell CoinMkt no longer trades NMC. We should remove them from the exchanges page.

The Team page says that @indolering is an undergrad; that is no longer the case.

A wiki article on "Aliases" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

I've had at least one person think that weusenamecoins.com is a website endorsed by us, because of its mention in the video. This is problematic. My opinion is that we should remove the video from the public site until the video is updated to link to namecoin.org instead.

@indolering , I think you had some contact with the video author a while back?

A wiki article on "Compression" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

Maybe in this line:
"Find more information in the Namecoin wiki or join us on the Namecoin forum."

I suggest to link to /namecoin instead of linking directly to a repo.

On the team page, it says that @domob1812 is "currently working on namecoind, Namecoin-Qt, and libcoin". libcoin seems out of date, as I don't think Daniel has done any libcoin coding in quite a while. Should we rewrite that to mention Namecoin Core?

SSL certificate for namecoin.org and subdomains had expired Jan 12, 2017.

We should add the Video page.

We should add the Download page

A wiki article on "Donation Info" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

A wiki article on "DNS Translation and Proxy Software" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

What's the current address?

A warning along the lines of https://www.reddit.com/r/Namecoin/comments/4cutd3/domain_ive_registered_not_im_manage_names_tab/d1nr7go would be useful to add to the Explorers page.

For after the move to Jekyll:

drazisil suggests a 'call to action' on the front page: namecoin/namecoin.info-dotbit#9 and a bunch of other things:

Current front page is taken 50% by an image, and the other by a wall of text.

As I understand, namecoin is (or was) designed to be a decentralized domain registrar.

The page seems to be mainly about freedom in the GNU sense and actually seems to tell very little about what the software is, or how to get started.

There is no call to action, or even an easy way to download (the download link being last on the nav bar, playing team, video and everything else above it in importance.

IMO, most of the front page should be moved to either features or philosophy.

The front page, 'above the fold' should be 'this is what it is, this is how to get started'

References bitcoin.org for a clean fast layout and call to action.

Bitsquare is a decentralized exchange. We should add them to the exchanges page.

At some point we should also figure out how we want to organize the exchanges page, given that Bitsquare isn't a for-profit entity like centralized exchanges, and therefore it doesn't make sense to expect them to donate for higher placement. We can worry about that in a 2nd ticket though.

See namecoin/namecoin-core#14 (comment) .

(This ticket assumes that we get the build instructions posted on namecoin.org, which I know we're aiming for, but isn't done yet.)

Tumblr doesn't support TLS; we should move the Tumblr blog's contents into this repo.

See notes from June 6 meeting:

https://forum.namecoin.org/viewtopic.php?p=15045#p15045

Tux Exchange is requesting to be added. Note that I haven't attempted to vet them at all.

The link to Cex.io on the Exchanges page is dead; according to https://cex.io/transaction-fee , Cex.io doesn't currently trade NMC.

We should add the Explorers page

We should mention the dev IRC meetings on the website, so that new developers can find it more easily.

The Team page mentions some of dead/obsolete projects. The ones I notice are FreeSpeechMe and Speech.is. At some point we might want to clean these up. In the case of FreeSpeechMe, that should be accompanied by documenting why it's obsolete (in FreeSpeechMe's case, because Mozilla wiped out those API's.)

DyName and NMControl are questionable in terms of usefulness long-term (DyName because some users might be tempted to use it in ways that scale poorly; NMControl because its architecture is inferior to ncdns), but I'd favor leaving those alone for now, since the alternative solutions aren't really ready at this point.

A wiki article on "Domain Name Specification Ideas PENDING DELETE" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

A wiki article on "Client API" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

We should add the Exchanges page

A wiki article on "API Design" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

We should remove them from the Exchanges page.

My profile says that I'm an undergraduate student; I am now a graduate student. This should be fixed.

I've heard a couple reports of problems at Vircurex. Does anyone know what's going on there? Should we remove them? @cassiniNMC

We should add the Team page.

A wiki article on "Build Namecoin From Source" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

Clicking the Namecoin logo in the upper left corner of the site results in a broken link on the github.io mirror. That's because the link is currently pointing to / , when it should be pointing to {{site.baseurl}} .

The team page states that @domob1812 is currently a PhD student. My understanding is that you finished up your PhD recently? Do you have suggestions on updated wording? Maybe "Daniel holds a PhD from University of Graz in Austria." ?

Tor Browser uses a fixed window width (I think 1000 pixels) to reduce fingerprinting risk. Unfortunately, namecoin.org is slightly too wide to display at this window width without a horizontal scrollbar. That should be fixed.

We've received a report of a wallet corruption issue that only affects 0.3.x: namecoin/namecoin-core#89 . Namecoin Core is unaffected, according to the victim of the corruption.

We have a few options.

1. Leave the site as it is.
2. Leave 0.3.80 available, but warn users to backup their wallet.dat before trying to encrypt it.
3. Leave 0.3.80 available, warn 0.3.80 users to backup their wallet.dat before trying to encrypt it, and also link prominently to Namecoin Core binaries (both 0.12 branch and the name tab PR).
4. Leave 0.3.80 available, warn 0.3.80 users to backup their wallet.dat before trying to encrypt it, and once the name tab is merged to master, also link prominently to Namecoin Core binaries (0.12 branch and master branch).
5. Leave 0.3.80 available, warn 0.3.80 users to backup their wallet.dat before trying to encrypt it, and once the name tab is merged to master, remove 0.3.80 and link instead to Namecoin Core binaries (0.12 branch and master branch).
6. Remove 0.3.80 now and link instead to Namecoin Core binaries (both 0.12 branch and the name tab PR).

CC: @domob1812 @brandonrobertz @cassiniNMC @randy-waterhouse @midnightmagic @josephbisch @jonasbits

Please suggest which course of action you prefer, or feel free to suggest some different course of action. Also please tag anyone whom I forgot to tag, who should be involved in deciding.

A wiki article on "51% Attack" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

Loading the main page when Javascript is disabled results in a missing tagline. Presumably that can be easily worked around with a <noscript> element. Although we would need to decide which tagline to default to when Javascript is disabled.

A wiki article on "Domain Name Specification" exists; we should move the good parts to the Jekyll site and burn the Mostly Unsourced Bullshit (TM).

Also see this: https://web.archive.org/web/20170324235531/https://wiki.namecoin.org/index.php?title=Domain_Name_Specification_1.0 . The article "Domain Name Specification 2.0" is a verbatim copy of https://web.archive.org/web/20170324235017/https://wiki.namecoin.org/index.php?title=Domain_Name_Specification and doesn't need to be archived separately.