For the previous April 2025 update, click here.
Infra-related changes
After outages earlier this year, management of backups, hosting, and performance monitoring was transferred to the Ethereum Foundation Devops team. The transition to a team whose job is to run these services means that we can be better equipped to quickly handle any issues. EthMag is a high point of coordination for research and implementation work on the Ethereum protocol, so it’s essential that its availability is reliable.
To this end, two Devops staff were added as admins: @ElasticRoentgen & @midnite. They will be responsible for keeping the forum online and software updated. Updates are regularly done during a maintenance window on Saturdays.
Transparency in moderation
Current admins
- jpitts: Founder of EthMag
- ElasticRoentgen: EF Devops
- midnite: EF Devops
- matt: Geth developer
- nicocsgy: EF Application Support
- nixo: EF Protocol Support
Current mods
- marcgarreau: EF Protocol Support, responsible for the protocolbot that connects call issues with ethmag post summaries
- abcoathup: Publisher of ethdevnews, highly engaged long-time contributor
- poojaranjan: Leads Ethereum Cat Herders, highly engaged long-time contributor
- anett: Long-time contributor and Ethereum devrel
Responsibilities
Admin responsibilities are mostly logistical - keeping the forum online, alerting any current issues, triaging emergencies, deleting spam, promoting user trust levels when new contributors can’t post, etc.
Mod responsibilities are more engaged with the day-to-day of the forum. This involves making sure that posts are correctly formatted, users are engaging in productive ways, and that call summaries are being correctly formatted
In addition, we have two category-specific moderators in the Web category:
EthMagicians Twitter account
The Ethereum Magicians twitter account has been more robustly secured with access to three EF folks: Nixo, Nico Consigny, & Tim Beiko. We’ve already begun to make the account somewhat more active, but would love to improve on it. Feel free to tag the account for RTs : )
And a proposal: I think it would make sense to add one or more of the existing non-EF moderators here as a delegate to the twitter account.
Moving forward
The Protocol Support team is actively working on making the Ethereum upgrade process more transparent. We expect this category to stay active while we maintain and improve the protocolbot integrations and call summaries & discussions and EIP proposal discussions happen here.
We’d love for the other categories to similarly see active moderation and engagement. If you’re active in ERCs and want to be a category moderator, or have a proposal for a new category that you think could see good activity, please propose it! There’s plenty of room on this forum for more ownership of non-EIP, non-protocol-happenings type content.