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by michaellarabel 1025 days ago
How is the title 'clickbait'? Calling It "LibreOffice Changing To Year.Month Based Versioning Scheme" or similar just makes it longer and less immediately clear... Really I honestly fail to see how it could be considered 'clickbait' for phrasing it as simply as possible.
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xcdzvyn 1025 days ago
The title is definitely supposed to play on the shock factor of 24 clearly not being immediately greater than 8, and possibly the mixed reactions to some other software moving away from SemVer (Firefox switching to Chrome's scheme comes to mind)

It wasn't immediately apparent to me that the new versioning scheme would be year.month/whatever, which is the real news, but it's less interesting.

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TaylorAlexander 1025 days ago
The title is a simple factual statement. I see no reason to presume the information is presented for “shock factor”.
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meragrin_ 1025 days ago
> How is the title 'clickbait'? Calling It "LibreOffice Changing To Year.Month Based Versioning Scheme" or similar just makes it longer and less immediately clear... Really I honestly fail to see how it could be considered 'clickbait' for phrasing it as simply as possible.

"LibreOffice Changing To Year.Month Based Versioning Scheme" is far more clear than "LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6". The only reason I clicked through to the comments is because it was not immediately clear to me why LibreOffice would choose to skip to 24.2.

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