For explorers, a big difference is that "Bitcoin explorers" focus on browsing blocks and transactions, while "Lightning explorers" focus on browsing nodes (because transactions are not visible and nodes are unique due to their channels).

I agree with @Bosch-0 that LN Explorers should be included in this page. But @GBKS has a good point that they serve fundamentally different purposes.

Hopefully going forward these two services become unified.

Perhaps. The user needs may be different for a block explorer versus a LN explorer. I'm not opposed to this idea of the 2 merging, but I also am not ready to make this assumption yet.

Maybe better to categorize these two separately? But I think we should definitely include LN explorers.

I agree with Christoph about LSPs, I see them as more of a service provider. I am not sure that LSPs are going to have their own unique UIs...I think of it more like somebody using their wallet's UI to connect to the LSP.

For explorers, a big difference is that "Bitcoin explorers" focus on browsing blocks and transactions, while "Lightning explorers" focus on browsing nodes (because transactions are not visible and nodes are unique due to their channels).

Having two sections for these was my initial idea, but unifying them felt more in line with our attempts to not distinguish the two networks. They are very different though this distinction can be made within the body text, they are both essentially exploring aspects of Bitcoin. Either approach though works fine with me, as you two both want to have a separate section lets go with that option as to not go back on forth on something minor.

I don't see how LSPs fit here, as those are not a category of software but instead entities that provide certain services. Can you maybe elaborate?

I was unsure whether to put this here also. I included it as we have exchanges listed here which are mostly also a service (except applications like Bisq, but that's about it). To me, LSPs is a general term that includes any group or individual offering any kind of Lightning service, including services such as lightningnetwork.plug, LNBig etc, which do have UI elements, not just backend services applications like Breez, Phoenix, and Muun offer.

LSPs will have a crucial role to play in growing the Lightning economy and keeping things decentralized. For example, I could see a decentralized marketplace opening up where individuals could setup their own Pheonix like 'LSP' that users could connect to, say instead of only being able to connect to ACINQ if using Phoenix.

My thoughts around LSPs / wider Lightning economy this started with this article: https://medium.com/breez-technology/envisioning-lsps-in-the-lightning-economy-832b45871992.

Alternatively, LSP's are mentioned when talking about Lightning nodes in the 'Nodes' section (as they are providing managed nodes).

@danielnordh Awesome, should I assign you to the #465 issue then? 🚀 🚀