Comment on Continuwuity
Beacon@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Why do useful FOSS things always have the worst names that make it hard to spread.
Well, it startend with conduit. That was a respectable name. The development slowed down and someone wasnt happy abput not getting pr merged. Then it got forked to conduwuit.
Speed picked back up. There was later a massive meltdown for some reason. To successors emerged continuwuity and tuwunel.
There's almost always a backstory for why the makers choose the name they did, but that doesn't change the harmful result. A bad name seriously limits how much the software will ever get adopted. Heck, if there was a FOSS project i cared about enough then i would fork it and keep everything the same except give it a more palatable name.
When they have good names they get stolen.
Try took up about gemini protocol.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.
Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.