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There is a very popular professional audio website called Gearspace that had a much spicier name for a long, long time. https://gearspace.com/ https://gearspac
by sholladay 1y ago
There is a very popular professional audio website called Gearspace that had a much spicier name for a long, long time.
https://gearspace.com/ https://gearspace.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/mftc0g/gearslutz_is_changing_its_name_to_gearspace/ https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/mftc0g/ge...
- JKCalhoun 1y agoHa ha, I remember that name.
- omnibrain 1y agoModwiggler changed name around the same time.
- pimlottc 1y agoFrom what to what?
- iosonofuturista 1y agoOriginal name: muffwiggler
- anal_reactor 1y agoI guess the reason why modern times feel so bland is because we all agree on the lowest common denominator, and then celebrate that as "iNcLuSiViTy". If anything you do has any personality, aka deviates from the standard workflow, it immediately gets a disadvantaged position on the free market. It's like, we collectively prioritize efficiency over fun and then we wonder why life is not fun even though it is efficient.
- jrajav 1y agoDumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Let's just leave aside the fact that the name genuinely made many people uncomfortable and unwelcome there (it did), it was also just teenage and immature. There's ways to inject personality and fun into a social experience without giggling about sex. Talk about lowest common denominator...
- efilife 1y ago> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature
- anal_reactor 1y agoI feel like there's confusion regarding the word "mature". It's supposed to mean that someone has lots of experience and draws knowledge from it, but in reality often people use the word "mature" to describe a certain specific societal ideal of a person that we're supposed to grow into. The problem is that societal consesus is often wrong, and that image of a perfectly mature person actually does have a lot of problems with it. Every generation discovers this, and redefines that ideal. 40 years ago in my country a "mature man" was expected to take part in alcohol drinking contests until blackout. Nowadays a "mature man" is expected to drink as little alcohol as possible. Neither attitude is actually about learning and forming a personal, informed opinion, both of them are about following whatever is currently in fashion.
- hulitu 1y ago> There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature Is a "mature personality" mature ? How do you test for it ? /s
- anal_reactor 1y agosomething something "things I don't find funny are objectively bad and wrong and you're a bad person, be a boring serious miserable adult like everyone else" something something
- account42 1y ago> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh? Yes, they do.
- Romario77 1y agobefore stackoverflow there was expertsexchange.com and they were forced to add a hyphen to the name because people kept making fun of the expertSEXchange, it became experts-exchange.com
- qingcharles 1y agoWow, I probably haven't logged into EE into 20 years. I just tried now and somehow guessed my username and 5 letter password first time. They want $9.99 to let me in, though, but they claim to have all my achievements still...
- rendaw 1y agoOh wow, I'm surprised the name change appears to be so universally appreciated on reddit. It doesn't strike me as different from "porn" i.e. "unix porn" "food porn" etc, which are at least somewhat widely accepted. I assumed it was self-aware/deprecating humor, as in the people there recognized they were frequently replacing which gear they used beyond what might be strictly necessary. It was colorful, in the way a lot of music and art is colorful. It's not like it's a sysadmin forum...