There is a very popular professional audio website called Gearspace that had a much spicier name for a long, long time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/mftc0g/ge...
There is a very popular professional audio website called Gearspace that had a much spicier name for a long, long time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/mftc0g/ge...
Oh 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...
If only people who liked a certain GNU image editing app were so appreciative of such an idea...
At one time there was a fork called Glimpse which basically had some minor UI improvements and a sane name.
before 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
Wow, 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...
Modwiggler changed name around the same time.
From what to what?
Original name: muffwiggler
Ha ha, I remember that name.
I 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.
Dumb 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...
something 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
> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?
There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature
I 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.
> There are many personalities. Not everything has to be mature
Is a "mature personality" mature ? How do you test for it ? /s
> Dumb frat-boy innuendos count as personality now, huh?
Yes, they do.