Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

Utterances – a lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues
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The problem with one word names is that if the app gets big, it pollutes the search results for those words, making information hard to find. Just Google "Kafka", "electron" and you'll see what I mean.

I get that there is a "cool factor" in using "austere" names. But please be considerate of the need of other professions … Naming your app "electron", "polyhedra", etc makes it harder for physicists and mathematicians or even just the average person to find the information they look for.

It's interesting to note that font designers generally are more considerate of not polluting the public naming space than programmers. Fonts are generally given names that just sound like they are names of a font (just like drugs are generally given names that "sound like names of a drug"). Apps used to follow similar conventions, hence PhotoShop, FrontPage, DreamWeaver, etc. I'm really not a fan of the "austere" naming aesthetics that have prevailed in recent years. And as a Kafka fan I'm tired of constantly coming across results about Apache Kafka when I'm searching for information related to the novelist. Yes, I know I can be more specific in my queries, but you'd be surprised how many good resources there are about Kafka that don't contain "Franz" anywhere, or how many pages on the internet are about Apache Kafka but don't contain "Apache" anywhere on the page. I used to have a Google alert set up for Kafka results and I had to turn it off because the noise to signal ratio is just too high.

It’s been easy to set up and maintain. Not that I get many comments!