Did you know, the bitcoin-dev mailing list has over 20,000 posts going back to June 2011? If each post takes 30 min to read (on average), that’s over 400 days of nonstop reading! To be fair, 1️⃣ Posts aren't easily searchable 2️⃣ If a thread spans multiple months back it can be broken 3️⃣ Your inbox probably has enough emails competing for your attention Things can easily go ignored & unread. Few, if any, can say they have read it all. For the rest of us, we started working into a way to download the mailing list straight to your brain. While we haven’t quite figured that out (yet), we've built the next best thing… Meet 📚 Bitcoin TLDR v2 📚, a collection of summaries for the bitcoin-dev, lightning-dev, and Delving Bitcoin mailing lists. ➡️ tldr.bitcoinsearch.xyz The mailing lists are known for being some of the best places to get updates on bitcoin development. 🔨 It’s where the builders go to propose new ideas, gather feedback, and hash it out. Whether you are trying to stay on the cutting edge, or are catching up on bitcoin’s rich technical history, Bitcoin TLDR is made for you. TLDR summarizes every individual mailing list post while also creating summaries at the thread level. With daily updates, thread summaries remain fresh based on new replies so you never miss a beat. 👀 Visit the Active Discussions section to see what’s trending: https://tldr.bitcoinsearch.xyz/posts#active-discussions If you’re already subscribed to the mailing lists but feel overwhelmed, try out the Bitcoin TLDR newsletter. It’s got weekly summaries of all the latest activity, providing a manageable way for you to stay on top of it all. https://tldr.bitcoinsearch.xyz/newsletters How Does It Work? - The Scraper Repo This scrapes through Delving Bitcoin and the Bitcoin Dev Mailing List, fetches mailing list pages, and stores them locally. A parser processes those files to extract clean metadata and message content. Finally, an indexer pushes the structured documents into an index in Elasticsearch for search and analysis. - The Summarizer The summarizer repo has two main parts. First, it makes sure Elasticsearch always has the latest full thread data by syncing the combined XML files. Second, it adds short AI summaries to posts that don’t have one yet. This way, Elasticsearch stores both the complete thread summaries, and individual post. Third, it creates AI summaries for the full thread, creating a combined summary. - The TLDR Frontend This renders summaries for each thread and post, and displays them with a beautiful UI. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bitcoin TLDR is completely free and open-source. It’s designed to help more people engage with high signal bitcoin and lightning tech discussions. Give it a try and let us know what you think! ➡️ tldr.bitcoinsearch.xyz