SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
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Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#2Please change the name of this project. It sounds very bad..
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#3Please change the name of this project. It sounds very bad..
If you're talking about the name "scuttlebutt" then where I'm from (Upstate New York, USA) it's basically a synonym for chatter or gossip.
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#4Please change the name of this project. It sounds very bad..
If you're talking about the name "scuttlebutt" then where I'm from (Upstate New York, USA) it's basically a synonym for chatter or gossip.
In non English-native countries, people don't know this word.
So it just sounds like "scuttle butt" and I don't want to recommend something with "butt" in the name to people.. which is a shame because it looks like a nice project.
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're talking about the name "scuttlebutt" then where I'm from (Upstate New York, USA) it's basically a synonym for chatter or gossip.
In non English-native countries, people don't know this word. So it just sounds like "scuttle butt" and I don't want to recommend something with "butt" in the name to people.. which is a shame because it looks like a nice project.
Considering that it made you do a double-take, and convinced me to click on it, I think it's a perfect name for a project.
In a similar vein, there's a CPU architecture called "brainfuck", oft-stylized as "brainfck". It's a lot* more memorable than something like MAOIIA or something.
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're talking about the name "scuttlebutt" then where I'm from (Upstate New York, USA) it's basically a synonym for chatter or gossip.
In non English-native countries, people don't know this word. So it just sounds like "scuttle butt" and I don't want to recommend something with "butt" in the name to people.. which is a shame because it looks like a nice project.
Or we can just get over it like git and a number of other things.
I tend to be rather conservative in what I utter myself but I will actively defend the right of projects to use uncommon English words as names.
In fact I think it is a net positive.
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#7Apologies, @staltz could you expand more? Is this centralized? Or federated, along the lines of Mastodon?
Why not do this decentralized? Should be possible. NAB (p2p Reddit) does something similar with GUN via "spaces" that are under a public key, but requires no centralized host/server/etc. should be trivial to do the same in SSB.
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
In non English-native countries, people don't know this word. So it just sounds like "scuttle butt" and I don't want to recommend something with "butt" in the name to people.. which is a shame because it looks like a nice project.
Or we can just get over it like git and a number of other things. I tend to be rather conservative in what I utter myself but I will actively defend the right of projects to use uncommon English words as names. In fact I think it is a net positive.
git is not a well known word like butt is.
The name scuttle butt just sounds silly, like a kid's joke
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you're talking about the name "scuttlebutt" then where I'm from (Upstate New York, USA) it's basically a synonym for chatter or gossip.
In non English-native countries, people don't know this word. So it just sounds like "scuttle butt" and I don't want to recommend something with "butt" in the name to people.. which is a shame because it looks like a nice project.
This strikes me as odd. The last time I was in an environment where the word butt was considered rude was the third grade.
Re: SSB Rooms: a new server type for Scuttlebutt
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or we can just get over it like git and a number of other things. I tend to be rather conservative in what I utter myself but I will actively defend the right of projects to use uncommon English words as names. In fact I think it is a net positive.
git is not a well known word like butt is. The name scuttle butt just sounds silly, like a kid's joke
It is a well-known term in the UK.