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That they call SourceForge "the site" says something. It was once a reputable, unique and really useful business, the only one of its kind doing pioneering work
by jvoorhis 11y ago
That they call SourceForge "the site" says something. It was once a reputable, unique and really useful business, the only one of its kind doing pioneering work.
Imagine Sergey Brin having lunch with an elder relative who asks, "How's the web site?"
SF never came within an order of magnitude of Google's success obviously, but the language still betrays the attitude here.
- biot 11y agoSpeaking of odd language, it's always struck me as quite old-fashioned when kids these days say things like "video isn't working on my Facebook". To me, it's equivalent to an old person saying "where did my internet go?" when the Internet Explorer icon is no longer visible on their desktop. I know it's effectively shorthand for "my Facebook account", but just saying "video isn't working on Facebook" conveys the same information since of course it's going to be their account they're using.
- rosser 11y agoI don't get this criticism. In pretty much every web-based shop I've ever worked, "the site" is unambiguously "our site", for the local value of "our". And on every website I can remember ever having seen that language, it was referring to the very site I was at that moment browsing. That's not attitude, it's linguistic convention.
- loganabbott 11y agoThe site's gonna be alright