[jpxw]

I hate the name personally. I would not feel comfortable asking a normal person (or, now that I think about it, even someone tech-savvy and privacy conscious) “hey come and join my Revolt server”.

At best, it sounds like I’d be inviting them to play some online game.

[notthemessiah]

Honestly, I find it better than naming a chat protocol "Matrix", which either brings to mind the movie or the mathematical structure (it also makes it a pain to search for and distinguish from linear algebra libraries). I'm more bothered by the laziness of using a thesaurus on a competing product which was badly named to begin with (Element was previously Riot). I'd rather have it some nonsensical (Zulip, Jitsi) or misspelled something, partially descriptive (Rocket.chat), or better yet based on a portmanteau (Talkyard, Mattermost) or some kind of clever wordplay.

[travisgriggs]

It’s not like the term “discord” didn’t invite allusions along the same vector. In this regard, the “namers” chose a name that did a hat tip to the original term and communicated “but more!”

That said, not a fan of either name myself.

The ad hoc poll going forward for funsies could be: if/when you the reader do a discord clone, which language will you be bragging it’s done in, and which name will you be choosing for your project?

[tvararu]

I am surprised nobody in this comments section has mentioned "Re-Volt" (1999) yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Re-Volt