[tylerritchie]

this is one where "software forge" is industry specific jargon (similar to "isostaticrebound" in earthquake science and "evapotranspiration" in biology) which the intended audience would tend to know the definition of. that said, it's a fair complaint for the quality of their marketing material (if not their technical documentation).

as an aside, i checked and it takes four taps (with an thumb highlight thown in ) to define it from my phone.

[RossBencina]

Curious, what part of the industry is "software forge" a term of art? I have been programming since the late 90s and have never heard it. Looks like it was popular from 1988 to 2007:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Software+Forge...

TIL

[necovek]

I would fully expect not everybody to have ran into it. I would not expect people to complain about the term without looking it up first.

[kookamamie]

It is not a term of art. A veteran programmer here and I also cringed when saw it used in this context.

[jraph]

It's far from new.

[mvdtnz]

It's new to me, a 15 year industry veteran. I know of sourceforge but never heard the term used otherwise.

[kookamamie]

Exactly. I never saw SourceForge as some sort of inspiration name-wise.

[jraph]

That's fair enough!