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What’s with the terrible names? I’ll never use a communication product named “Discord”, and “Revolt” is even worse.
by db48x 3y ago
What’s with the terrible names? I’ll never use a communication product named “Discord”, and “Revolt” is even worse.
- BizarroLand 3y agoIt's FOSS, so make your own variant and give it a better name.
- db48x 3y agoThat’s not the point. Why are people choosing terrible names? “Discord”, “Revolt”, and “Riot” are all basically antonyms if your product is designed to enable communication between people.
- komali2 3y agoSame for Slack though, right? Like, not working? Revolt and Riot at least require a huge amount of communication to kick off, and Discord requires some large amount of people. Any one person can slack off on their own.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoThere's another actually, along with Ventrilo and TeamSpeak, there was "Mumble," which is precisely what you don't want to do when voicechatting. So there's definitely a trend. I guess the idea is that your name stands out precisely for this reason, so people remember it. But yeah once it becomes a trend, hard to keep track & the trend changes.
- jimmygrapes 3y agoI'm fairly certain Discord was chosen as a play on the trend started by Eris Free Met and continued with Slack.
- RheingoldRiver 3y agoDon't forget Element was initially called "Riot"
- db48x 3y agoSheesh. I hadn’t heard of that one.
- Shish2k 3y agoIt could be worse - somebody might create a communication website with “hacker” in the name, and I think we can agree that neither of us would ever use that