PicoDeNero
commented
2 years ago This originally came to my attention through a conversation I had with @dEBRUYNE-1 on reddit back in April. https://www.reddit.com/r/monerosupport/comments/tp8yno/comment/i2ggy5z/
There are a lot of people posting regularly on r/MoneroSupport and r/Monero asking about pruning their local nodes or running a pruned node, as recently as yesterday. Monero users at large do not realize that the boostrap mode creates a local pruned node by default, though many are interested in running pruned nodes. Also, in some cases, this has resulted in some confusion when users try to prune later on.
Generally, I think having pruned nodes by default is a really great feature, but there needs to be more publicly available and digestible information out there about it.
To quote @rating89us, "Since https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/3345, simple (bootstrap) mode now syncs a pruned blockchain from scratch." This was back in 2021.
Looking around, neither the GUI, the GUI Guide, nor the website mention anything about this.
The GUI does have a pending issue about it: https://github.com/monero-project/monero-gui/pull/3408
I respectfully disagree, but understand selsta's concern that "A simple mode user doesn't have to know what pruning is." in regards to the language that appears in the GUI itself. However, IMHO, people who go looking for more detailed information about pruned nodes/bootstrap mode on Moneropedia or in the GUI guide should be able to find it.
The Moneropedia page on the website has at least one article that should probably be updated:
The GUI Guide has at least two chapters that should probably be updated too:
Note: I almost never use Github, don't know what the hell I'm doing, just copy/pasting this in Monero-Site and GUI. Hoping someone who does know what they are doing can take this from here.