To be honest I started using this just because it looked simple and it was open source.
I will keep using it.Great work and thank you for this service.
Also kudos on the name.
Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
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Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
#72"Tampon"? Seriously? Trying to be edgy?
Tampon is French for Buffer. I think this is funny.
I guess Tampon in French also means "look we're gonna make an offensive joke for the English world and then point to the French language when criticized for it". Either that or the French engineers live in an alternate Francophone universe.
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
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Tampon is French for Buffer. I think this is funny.
I guess Tampon in French also means "look we're gonna make an offensive joke for the English world and then point to the French language when criticized for it". Either that or the French engineers live in an alternate Francophone universe.
I honestly fail to understand why you feel it's an "offensive" name - distasteful perhaps, but offensive? To whom?
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
#74Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it was adding ;-) (If anyone does want to build an extension for Buffer, I'd love something that let me schedule certain tweets to post on certain dates way off in the future.. but I don't want to sign up to Hootsuite or anything big like that.)
Calling it an open source Buffer app seemed more elegant than calling it an open source Buffer clone :)
I get your point, but I think the issue is terms like "Facebook app" and "Twitter app" have become popular and mean apps for those platforms.
Not to dilute your efforts at all, but something like "Buffer-like app" or "Buffer-style app" or "Buffer-esque app" would be more precise.
Anyway, congrats for doing this. Back when Buffer's pricing plan was horrible, I was almost tempted to do something similar. Since their reorganization, I've been happy with their pricing plan, but it's always great that open alternatives exist.
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
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Tampon is French for Buffer. I think this is funny.
"The Aristocrats" is a very funny joke. But that doesn't mean it's appropriate to tell in every circumstance. Tampon may or may not be funny, but being funny is not, in and of itself, the measure of whether a name is appropriate.
"The Aristocrats" is a very funny joke. But that doesn't mean it's appropriate to tell in every circumstance.
Aha! This might explain why I haven't been invited to any family events this year..
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
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I wouldn't have batted an eye if it were called Jock Strap or something inherently male in nature Really? I would totally cringe at something called "Jock Strap" or "scrotum" or "foreskin". Tampon isn't just a feminine word like "flower" or "butterfly", it's biological and personal . "Anal Probe" is gender-neutral neutral term that also feels inappropriate because of its personal and biological nature.
Scrotwm is an open source Linux window manager. I'm struggling to think of too many other examples - "Back Orifice" was a script kiddie tool from about a decade ago, I guess that was a "provocative" name (iirc, it had a plugin system called "buttplugs", but I may have imagined that). Question to the people who are objecting to the name: would you object to a punk band that called itself "Tampon"? Would you say things…
>> Question to the people who are objecting to the name: would you object to a punk band that called itself "Tampon"? Would you say things like "this will really harm adoption of your product"? If not, what do you consider to be the relevant distinction between open source software and punk music?
By punk standards, 'Tampon' would be a relatively boring and unimaginative name. However, aren't we comparing apples to oranges?
I used to play in a punk band, during which time I sported a very respectable mohawk. I also wore tweed jackets from the salvation army, moshed and drank aggressively and cursed profusely.
As great fun as that was, I wouldn't do either of these things in a place-that-I-code. Not in a co-working space, not at a coffee shop, and certainly not in my place of employment.
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
#77Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it was adding ;-) (If anyone does want to build an extension for Buffer, I'd love something that let me schedule certain tweets to post on certain dates way off in the future.. but I don't want to sign up to Hootsuite or anything big like that.)
Calling it an open source Buffer app seemed more elegant than calling it an open source Buffer clone :)
We certainly see some confusion from the "app" in our domain. We think of our name as "Buffer" rather than "Buffer app". So I think "an open source Buffer" would make a lot of sense, and might remove this confusion of whether it's something built as an app for Buffer. Love the thinking here, by the way :-)
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
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Calling it an open source Buffer app seemed more elegant than calling it an open source Buffer clone :)
We certainly see some confusion from the "app" in our domain. We think of our name as "Buffer" rather than "Buffer app". So I think "an open source Buffer" would make a lot of sense, and might remove this confusion of whether it's something built as an app for Buffer. Love the thinking here, by the way :-)
Got it.
A "Buffer" is pretty generic in software though, so this wording might be confusing also. You could say RabbitMQ is an open source buffer as well :)
Re: Show HN: Tampon - an open source Buffer app
#79Now I understand what it is, this seems like an interesting project. As a Buffer user, the way it's worded made me think it's an app for Buffer and I couldn't work out what it was adding ;-) (If anyone does want to build an extension for Buffer, I'd love something that let me schedule certain tweets to post on certain dates way off in the future.. but I don't want to sign up to Hootsuite or anything big like that.)
What's interesting here is that you would like as an extension the one feature that I think Buffer chose to exclude from the start to disrupt other pre-existing "Twitter schedulers" by being more easy-to-use :)
But anyways, it would be pretty easy to add this feature to Tampon. I've been thinking about it actually!
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Sure, it's useful -- in fact, I really need to schedule tweets, but have been procrastinating in finding one. This post made me do the 3 second google search and I chose http://twuffer.com -- not a great name, but free, easy and has the features I need. There are a ton of products (free and commercial) that do this -- but only one had a name that made me not even want to find out if it would be useful to me. No comme…
Thanks for the link, I haven't really looked into it too much, I appreciate you sharing your findings.
I also signed up for Buffer, which has a really nice Chrome extension that adds "Add to Buffer" to some popular sites, including HN.