[cozzyd]

DiceDB sounds like the name of a joke database that returns random results.

[BoorishBears]

No it doesn't.

[graynk]

Yes it does.

Seems we're in a stalemate, where do we go from here?

[BoorishBears]

OP continues ignoring static from the people who jump to shoddy conclusions.

[kreddor]

It was my first thought as well, before reading the landing page.

[BoorishBears]

Yeah, and I'm sure someone clicked it thinking it was a DB for EA's Dice Studios.

If you expose something to enough people you'll get some unreasonable takes and interpretations of it. It's important to ignore them.

[graynk]

> If you expose something to enough people you'll get some unreasonable takes and interpretations of it. It's important to ignore them.

Quite literally the main function of dice is to give you random numbers. Looking over the website and readme I could not surmise why they would call it DiceDB except for "it sounds nice", but it's absolutely not unreasonable to look at the name and have a thought "it's probably a joke project about random results".

[BoorishBears]

There are literal mountains of software named for no particular reason (let alone sounding nice), or named by origins no person would ever infer without digging in deeper.

Reasonable people realize this and won't discard a project as a joke because of such a teneous connection, and the fact they've gotten traction is a testament to that.

[graynk]

> Reasonable people realize this and won't discard a project as a joke

I agree. Nobody said anything about discarding nothing though. Only that it's a reasonable first thought to have upon hearing the name. And it is.