[va_coder]

When it's finally released the plan is to change the name right? Diaspora sounds like horrible disease.

[jpeterson]

It's actually a great name, but it seems that they overestimated the vocabulary of their audience.

[delehal]

Contempt for your users always ends well.

[fusiongyro]

Not to anybody with a little knowledge of history, Judaism or the Greek language.

[AznHisoka]

This. Can you picture someone telling someone about this site in a conversation? How would you even pronounce it? They need to fix this before moving on to anything else.

[shmerl]

If you don't know how to pronounce something - you can fetch a dictionary and look it up: http://www.howjsay.com