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Why did this project choose such an unsearchable name and cripple its own acceptability? Can't search for /e/, can't search for 'e', 'e os' refers to some entir
by lovelearning 8y ago
Why did this project choose such an unsearchable name and cripple its own acceptability? Can't search for /e/, can't search for 'e', 'e os' refers to some entirely different OS...
- walterbell 8y agoSearch for "eelo".
- flatfilefan 8y ago/e/ is what happens when you let hackers do the branding.
- flatfilefan 8y agoI like how this comment gets negative points in this thread but totally positive as a first level comment. Did you guys expect a different answer? I’m sorry to disappoint you but information is not what you already know. It’s the opposite, actually.
- hutzlibu 8y agoOr maybe some people don't like duplicates?
- flatfilefan 8y agoI did not think of that. Yes, we should not underestimate the fellow combinators in their ability to connect the dots ;-)
- ionised 8y agoOr maybe you should stop posting the same comment multiple times.
- dang 8y agoThis is off-topic and a violation of the site guidelines. Please don't do that either. It's also a meaningless observation, btw, since the first-order bit of such things is randomness.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't post duplicate comments to Hacker News. Those are signal-noise-ratio disasters.
- swebs 8y agoIt doesn't help that it shares the naming conventions of 4chan boards. In this case it leads to ecchi (which is very NSFW). Imagine if someone named their new phone OS /r/ecchi