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Riot is now Element

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550 points J_tt | 1 comments | 15 Jul 20 07:07 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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izietto ◴[15 Jul 20 07:41 UTC] No.23842358[source]▶
I don't like the new name, is too generic. I think an original alternative would have been better, like Trello, Slack, ...
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gkoberger ◴[15 Jul 20 07:43 UTC] No.23842371[source]▶
I think those names are taken.

(Really though, Slack is as generic of a word as Element! It just had a strong connotation now)

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izietto ◴[15 Jul 20 07:50 UTC] No.23842414[source]▶
Yeah they are taken, I meant a name of that kind, rather than an already existing word that is pretty common too
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gkoberger ◴[15 Jul 20 21:18 UTC] No.23852000{3}[source]▶
Slack is an existing word that's pretty common word, though, which was my point.

So are Zoom, Medium, Apple, Windows, Segment, etc. We just don't remember that sometimes, because the company has redefined the word.

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izietto ◴[16 Jul 20 08:42 UTC] No.23857014{4}[source]▶
No, it's just that I'm not a native English speaker, I'm realizing just now that I checked on WordReference that "slack" is an existing word
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1. gkoberger ◴[16 Jul 20 08:45 UTC] No.23857028{5}[source]▶
Ah, apologizes then! Didn’t realize you weren’t a native speaker at all :) in that case, I can see it seeming like a made up word!