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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 4 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.658s | source
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dividedbyzero ◴[15 Jul 20 07:49 UTC] No.23842409[source]▶
That's been long overdue and will hopefully help Matrix make inroads into more conservative organizations; I believe the tech is really promising. It's a definite liability, trying to introduce people to Matrix, when the de-facto default client's name evokes all kinds of unhelpful associations – it doesn't sound like work at all and it does sound like gamers, toys, apparently even like a far-left political organisation. Element should be fine for everyone.
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srg0 ◴[15 Jul 20 08:59 UTC] No.23842798[source]▶
looking at you, git
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1. bartread ◴[15 Jul 20 10:41 UTC] No.23843422[source]▶
I've always wondered about that one too. I mean naming is a minefield, but using a name that's well known to be at least mildly offensive in a particular dialect of English is probably something I would have chosen to avoid. I suppose at least they didn't call it "prck", "twt", or "cnt". One has to be grateful for small mercies.
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2. WorldMaker ◴[15 Jul 20 17:29 UTC] No.23848500[source]▶
From what I recall it was intentional on part of the early git team. They did want to make it clear it was a "dumb" VCS compared to work going on in some of the smarter ones such as darcs. git has always had something of the Unix "worse is better" philosophy at its core, and it is amusing it chose to wear that so much on its sleeve that it took that as a name.
3. tripzilch ◴[16 Jul 20 12:16 UTC] No.23858190[source]▶
Is "twat" worse than "git"? I thought it was relatively mild as well
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4. bartread ◴[16 Jul 20 17:32 UTC] No.23861406[source]▶
I think you'd get different answers from different people but you can really put your back into the UK pronunciation of "twat" to make it sound really venomous, as opposed to the much more innocuous "twot" pronunciation of the US. That tends to make it more offensive. "Git" just doesn't have quite the same impact.