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by laumars 2683 days ago
Looks good.

From a personal point of view, I don't like projects that have missing letters in the name. I find them confusing to read and harder to type (even after I've learned how to pronounce it). In fact even after using `nginx` for years, I still get stuck which letters to type if ever I interrupt my muscle memory.

eg I'm in the terminal and I want to launch flat-reader... now which letters do I type and which do I ignore?

If you're after something that's less keystrokes to launch then I much prefer the approach of applications like Visual Studio Code (`code`) or Sublime Text (`subl3`) that take a portion of the name. So you could have something like `flatr`.

That all said, you're never going to please everyone when it comes to naming things to I expect (hope) you do take my thoughts here with a pinch of salt :)

As for the reader itself; it looks like a lot of thought has gone into it. Good work there.