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Okay, despite the fact that I keep being downvoted for having brought this up, I'll answer anyway and probably get downvoted again. Here's the thing. As someone
by chipotle_coyote 5y ago
Okay, despite the fact that I keep being downvoted for having brought this up, I'll answer anyway and probably get downvoted again. Here's the thing. As someone who knows the "original" Pollen, and knows that it is a system designed for making online publications look good, my immediate thought was: "Oh, is this a CSS library from the guy who created Pollen? That's cool." Maybe it was designed to work in concert with Pollen! Maybe it's just inspired by Pollen! Or...oh, maybe it has nothing to do with Pollen. Huh.
If the title was "Pollen - a library for controlling air quality sensors," I wouldn't have thought that, because those two fields aren't remotely connected. But this Pollen and the original Pollen are in adjacent problem spaces, and that makes the identical naming relevant.
I'm sorry you think that's "little more than noise." I just don't agree. As I mentioned elsewhere and I guess shouldn't have, normally I don't bring this sort of thing up, but I think in this case the possibility for confusion isn't in the "so wacky ha ha out of the blue gosh nobody would ever mix up the two" camp that apparently everyone else does.