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Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by easytiger »

MrDresden wrote: post #63
easytiger wrote: post #48

Press release pro tip: sidle in what the company or app does very early in. Verging on all of the releases I read on HN don't do this but are for companies I've not heard of. So you leave knowing almost nothing about the company

That's a good point. I've noticed larger enterprises doing this with their pr's, which has always struck me as bit silly when it is a house hold name (Oracle, Canonical, VMWare etc) but ofc not everyone would know them. But for smaller vendors this becomes even more important.

Yes indeed its pretty universal for PLCs to do it.

Some examples to demonstrate

[1] ...LexisNexis® CounselLink®, a leading cloud-based enterprise legal management solution for corporate law departments, today announced the release...

[2] ...RecVue, Inc., the fastest growing next generation order-to-cash automation platform, today announced...

etc

[1] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lexisnexis-counsell... [2] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/recvue-achieves-soc...

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by robalni »

Certhas wrote: post #59
dividedbyzero wrote: post #15

That's been long overdue and will hopefully help Matrix make inroads into more conservative organizations; I believe the tech is really promising. It's a definite liability, trying to introduce people to Matrix, when the de-facto default client's name evokes all kinds of unhelpful associations – it doesn't sound like work at all and it does sound like gamers, toys, apparently even like a far-left political organisati…

This comment section is remarkable. If the name change is perceived to be in order to be welcoming to corporate, nobody has a problem with that. Imagine if the name change was perceived to be in order to be more welcoming to underrepresented people. We would have endless discussions about pc culture, and how the name is not bad at all, etc...

Do you have an example of when a name change has generated such discussions?

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by vultour »

sam_goody wrote: post #60
sanqui wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd think I'm far from the only one who finds CockroachDB simply repulsive merely for its name.

OT, but I refer to it as RoachDB and that helps a lot. Roach could be a last name, or a type of chocolate...

Roach is often used as a synonym for cockroach

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by [deleted] »

tasogare wrote: post #20
echelon wrote: post #19

Speaking of names, I'm upset that the username I go by is taken. I'm echelon @ { gmail, HN, Twitter, Github, Gitlab, Square Cash, etc }, but found Riot / Matrix just a few months too late to get my username. I'm not satisfied with the "just stand up your own server" response as an alternative. I know it's cutting off my nose, but I've avoided using it because of this. I'm OCD about stupid usernames. I wish unused use…

Well your username is made of a single common name existing in the dictionary, this situation was very predictable.

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Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by vanburen »

greatgib wrote: post #24

It will be impossible to find on Google. Also, I'm wondering if it a good choice for such a project to use the hipster '.io' domain regarding the risk in a near future with this domain name.

Agree, it would of been better to focus on a name where getting the .com was feasible. At least element is better than riot.

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by pteraspidomorph »

I don't care about SEO, but as an infrequent user I always liked that Riot was a snappy, two syllable, memorable name (I never forgot it). Synapse and Matrix are also easy for me to remember, I must add. I suspect I may forget Element--too close to a word I use every day (HTML elements, chemical elements, etc.) We'll see. Either way I expect I can get there by looking up "matrix client," of course.

EDIT: one -> two

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by Arathorn »

easytiger wrote: post #48

Press release pro tip: sidle in what the company or app does very early in. Verging on all of the releases I read on HN don't do this but are for companies I've not heard of. So you leave knowing almost nothing about the company

oops, excellent point. I've added "For those discovering us for the first time: Element is the flagship secure collaboration app for the decentralised Matrix communication network." as the 2nd main para.

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by dfee »

pteraspidomorph wrote: post #77

I don't care about SEO, but as an infrequent user I always liked that Riot was a snappy, two syllable, memorable name (I never forgot it). Synapse and Matrix are also easy for me to remember, I must add. I suspect I may forget Element--too close to a word I use every day (HTML elements, chemical elements, etc.) We'll see. Either way I expect I can get there by looking up "matrix client," of course. EDIT: one -> two

Riot is two syllables.

Re: Riot is now Element

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Post by pteraspidomorph »

dfee wrote: post #79
pteraspidomorph wrote: post #77

I don't care about SEO, but as an infrequent user I always liked that Riot was a snappy, two syllable, memorable name (I never forgot it). Synapse and Matrix are also easy for me to remember, I must add. I suspect I may forget Element--too close to a word I use every day (HTML elements, chemical elements, etc.) We'll see. Either way I expect I can get there by looking up "matrix client," of course. EDIT: one -> two

Riot is two syllables.

Oh, sorry. I'm not a native english speaker.
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