Revise website for a possible first experimental release for low-key testing and feedback #162

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1. GBKS

   self-assigned this

   on Apr 21, 2026
2. johnny9 commented on May 1, 2026

   

   johnny9

   on May 1, 2026

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   Proposed change to the home page

   1. Move all the project/design/milestone documentation to a sub section, including the sidebar/menu navigation
   
   2. Keep the "Provide early feedback" section, but revise it to fit our 1.x experimental release info
   
   3. Add a proper project intro and status info at the top
   
   4. [Optional] Create a test guide [like Arké has](https://arke.cash/test/). This will ideally result in much better structured feedback
   

   I have been thinking about this a bit more and I think your proposed changes are what we need to do. I am thinking about making the documentation section of the website be a sort of final piece of our "definition of done" that we need to do before v1.0 merge into main.

   Current Topic / Area	Suggested User-Facing Name	Notes
   First Run, Runtime Messages, and App Shell	Get Started and App Basics	Better user-facing name. Includes first launch, app navigation, status bar, notifications, runtime warnings/questions.
   Node Operations, Peers, and Diagnostics	Run and Monitor Your Node	Good fit. Include block sync, storage, connections, peers, bans, traffic, console/debug tools.
   Wallet Creation and Lifecycle	Create and Manage Wallets	Good fit. Include create wallet, watch-only creation, open/switch/close wallets.
   Wallet Recovery, Migration, and Security	Secure, Back Up, and Restore Wallets	Good fit. Security/recovery are user goals and should be documented together.
   Wallet Overview and Activity	View Balances and Activity	Good fit. Include overview, transaction history, transaction details, export, speed up/abandon from activity.
   Addresses, Contacts, and Message Signing	Manage Addresses and Contacts	Mostly good, but message signing may deserve a subsection called Sign and Verify Messages.
   Receive Funds and Payment Requests	Receive Bitcoin	Strong fit.
   Send Funds	Send Bitcoin	Strong fit. Include RBF, PSBT, watch-only send, coin selection, fees.
   External Signing	Use External Signers	Good as its own guide because it spans create, settings, receive verification, send signing.
   Settings, Help, Display, and Localization	Settings and Help	Good fit.

   This would be the highest level of the documentation pages and each subsection would contain basic userflow instructions with screenshots from the application.

   Example under Send Bitcoin:

   • Basic send
   • Send to multiple recipients
   • Choose fees
   • Use RBF for a new transaction
   • Speed up a transaction from Activity
   • Select coins
   • Send from a watch-only wallet by saving/copying PSBT
   • Load, inspect, sign, broadcast, copy, or save a PSBT
   • Open a BIP21 payment URI
3. johnny9

   added this to Bitcoin Core App Releaseon May 2, 2026
4. github-project-automation

   moved this to Open in Bitcoin Core App Releaseon May 2, 2026
5. johnny9

   added this to QML GUIon May 6, 2026
6. github-project-automation

   moved this to Open in QML GUIon May 6, 2026
7. johnny9

   marked Revise website for a possible first experimental release for low-key testing and feedback bitcoin-core/gui-qml#684 as a duplicate of this issue on May 6, 2026
8. johnny9

   moved this from Open to In Progress in QML GUIon May 11, 2026
9. johnny9

   moved this from In Progress to Done in QML GUIon Jul 28, 2026