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I guess you've settled on a name, pretty completely, but tox evokes all sorts of bad feelings like "Toxin", "Detox" - generally feelings associated with the ide

by Aqueous 12y ago

I guess you've settled on a name, pretty completely, but tox evokes all sorts of bad feelings like "Toxin", "Detox" - generally feelings associated with the idea of poison or of poisoning yourself. From a marketing perspective this might not be the least sinister name you could have chosen. I realize this comes out of 4chan and we make a point of not giving a shit about marketing but...

curun1r 12y ago
It seems to be intentional, or at least acknowledged...the name of one of the Mac clients is 'Poison'.
imaginenore 12y ago
I disagree, it sounds like "talks" to me. Pretty cool name actually.
- Byzantine 12y ago
  They intended "Talks" but most people will just associate it with toxicity or toxins. They really need to come up with a better name if they want to succeed.
- threedaymonk 12y ago
  Whether "tox" sounds like "talks" will depend on whether or not your dialect exhibits the cot/caught merger. To those of us without, it sounds very different!
Danieru 12y ago
Also disagree, to me it sounds like Torx the screwdriver bit. It makes me think of a very utilitarian program.
TallboyOne 12y ago
The first thing I thought of was toxic.
- Ridley 12y ago
  Toxic is the name of the CLI client. https://github.com/tox/toxic https://github.com/tox/toxic I take the opposite perspective though. In nature toxins and poisons are used as protection against predators.
  - TallboyOne 12y ago
    That's for you personally. There's a reason companies spend millions of dollars on branding (for the masses) though... any marketing 101 person can tell you you don't want your company associated with negative images like toxins :p
RankingMember 12y ago
I like the name, sounds like something that would give certain government agencies heartburn.
anon4 12y ago
It's marketed to people, not corporations. If the name bothers you, it's not for you. Enjoy being tracked by everybody because you were too much of a baby to run something called "tox" out of fear of being poisoned.
ahknight 12y ago
Also, Tox is taken as the name of an established test runner in the Python world.
userbinator 12y ago
Detox would actually be a pretty good choice: cleanse yourself of the poison of mass surveillance.

by Aqueous 12y ago

curun1r 12y ago

It seems to be intentional, or at least acknowledged...the name of one of the Mac clients is 'Poison'.

imaginenore 12y ago

I disagree, it sounds like "talks" to me. Pretty cool name actually.

Byzantine 12y ago
They intended "Talks" but most people will just associate it with toxicity or toxins. They really need to come up with a better name if they want to succeed.
threedaymonk 12y ago
Whether "tox" sounds like "talks" will depend on whether or not your dialect exhibits the cot/caught merger. To those of us without, it sounds very different!

Danieru 12y ago

Also disagree, to me it sounds like Torx the screwdriver bit. It makes me think of a very utilitarian program.

TallboyOne 12y ago

The first thing I thought of was toxic.

Ridley 12y ago
Toxic is the name of the CLI client. https://github.com/tox/toxic https://github.com/tox/toxic I take the opposite perspective though. In nature toxins and poisons are used as protection against predators.
- TallboyOne 12y ago
  That's for you personally. There's a reason companies spend millions of dollars on branding (for the masses) though... any marketing 101 person can tell you you don't want your company associated with negative images like toxins :p

RankingMember 12y ago

I like the name, sounds like something that would give certain government agencies heartburn.

anon4 12y ago

It's marketed to people, not corporations. If the name bothers you, it's not for you. Enjoy being tracked by everybody because you were too much of a baby to run something called "tox" out of fear of being poisoned.

ahknight 12y ago

Also, Tox is taken as the name of an established test runner in the Python world.

userbinator 12y ago

Detox would actually be a pretty good choice: cleanse yourself of the poison of mass surveillance.