[newx]

Suggestion to the leads of this project: make the product objective/statement clearer.

Maybe I'm not the target demographic for this but I was met with a wall of text and couldn't make much of it all. It seems exciting and also complex, at least for me, but selecting the right words can go a long way.

I know that I can search the archives and this current thread to get more context but this might not be the case of whoever gets directly to the introduction page.

Feel free to contact me should you want to review those texts. I'd gladly try to give you my humble help.

[pvg]

Obscurantism is very much the point, otherwise nobody even attempt to take it seriously. The target demographic is 'people whom you might be able to bamboozle into also becoming crypotnazis' which I realize sounds bananas but that's barely scratching the surface of the banananess of it all.

[lonelappde]

Bravo using the word "crypto" with two different meaning that both fit the sentence.

[pvg]

I had it misspelled as 'crypt' for a bit, unintentionally further insulting both Yarvin and Morrissey fans.

[seemslegit]

You might as well be asking spammers and 419 scammers to up their spelling and grammar so that more upstanding citizens could take advantage of those lucrative opportunities

[centimeter]

> make the product objective/statement clearer.

They intentionally make Urbit obscure, for reasons explained in the UR post introducing the idea 2011. It basically has to do with keeping out people who are a net drain on a new software project (software entryists, "developer evangelists", etc.).

[Aeolun]

If their goal is to never gain enough momentum to make this more than a toy project, then that makes sense.

Personally it annoys the fuck out of me.