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by fouc 1766 days ago
Webcrate is a great name, however the "crate" term strongly implies archival in this context to me. So as a user, I would actually assume that it takes an archive/snapshot of every website that I bookmark. The website doesn't seem to indicate it can do this?
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For me, "crate" is now associated with anything rust (and I'm neither a rust person or a programmer) - if I see crate in relation to tech, "it has something to do with rust."
Interesting, I'll forever associate crates with vinyl records and DJing.. and I am a programmer, and not a DJ..

I guess context matters! ;-)

Funny how it means completely different things to different people. As a 18 year old I would never think of vinyl records when hearing "crates" :D
I'm with you! It's possible that at one time I thought as you (also being a music fan), but in the past 5 (?) years you can't trip but to find someone talking about rust in the tech spaces. Not only context, but era (point in time?) as well.
lol, this wouldn't be an HN thread without people bikeshedding over an app's name, would it?
The programmer's curse - naming things.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

Nope, not at this time. You can only store the URL itself in a "crate".

Glad you like the name though!