Let's Encrypt – Ten Years of Community Support
11 hours ago
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- Seth Schoen, an early contributor to Let's Encrypt, reflects on the Community Forum's 10-year impact.
- The forum serves as a primary resource for technical questions, ACME help, and debugging for users and developers.
- Multilingual support includes French, Spanish, Portuguese, and other languages via volunteers and machine translation.
- Thousands of volunteers have assisted users, reported bugs, and facilitated direct developer interactions.
- Common forum interactions involve troubleshooting certificate issuance or renewal issues with user cooperation.
- The forum fosters tangible security improvements, akin to practical safety upgrades like bike lights.
- Let's Encrypt's openness includes public discussions on standards, software, and operational decisions.
- Discourse hosts the forum pro bono, benefiting from Let's Encrypt certificates and user-friendly features.
- Volunteers and moderators play crucial roles in user support, spam prevention, and conflict resolution.
- Projects like Let's Debug, CertSage, and acme-dns emerged from forum discussions to address common issues.
- Jacob Hoffman-Andrews and others set a welcoming tone, emphasizing patience and inclusivity for all users.