[bloodorange]

I wish they had picked a name that wouldn't be odd when mentioned at work.

[eli]

At the risk of sounding older than I am, I've noticed a lot of young developers these days give things cutesy or even risque names.

(Edit: Also, it seems that name was selected by the author of the original CLI program for APNGs, who does not appear to be involved in this kickstarter)

[ohWhatever]

I have always hated the tendency toward creating retarded adverbs, ever since people took to registering domains in the Libya country code TLD.

Now, we'r stuck with all these trendy sounding SaaS projects that have adopted some of the most irritating names imaginable.

I wish people would stop dreaming up stupid website domains like:

dork.ly

fart.ly

retard.ly (note that in most cases, it would take a small leap of imagination to choose "retarded" over "retard" in case like this, but that opportunity is often squandered)

adverb.ly

grammar.ly

and-so-on.ly

...even worse is when someone truly brainless comes along, and adheres to the trend, but registers under a .com TLD, and still botches the grammar of the word. as in:

botchedly.com

I have always hated these sorts of names.

[hackerboos]

There was a javascript library called Testacular but they seen sense and changed the name to Karma.

[GhotiFish]

When searching for Testacular help, you used the terms: Testacular -testicular.

Now when searching for Karma help, you use the terms: Karma -Testacular -testicular.

Fun world we live in.

[rikacomet]

I think we can go with words A.P.G. (same analogy as PNG, and JPG)

APG sounds more catchy.. just giving my nickels on the name, use it if you want.

This project is something I have been waiting for, like forever, the idea is very good, I hope the execution of this idea is good as well. Somehow I have high expectations (which is unusual for me for such works)

[ohWhatever]

I don't get it. What's wrong with the name?

Are you pronouncing it as if it were the verb, "aping", like as in "poorly imitating a person's behavior in the primitive manner of an ape"?

My inclination was to spell out the letters of the acronym, as in "A-P-N-G", like: Ay, Pee, En, Gee.

I don't think they were targeting a funny name. I wonder if they're fluent in English.

[kbrackbill]

I think it's not APNG that's the issue but the kickstarter's name, "apngasm".

[Dylan16807]

A Ping A S M?

Aping assembler?

I don't see much problem.

[Millennium]

Right, and "Rather A Pokemon Emulator?" was completely, totally, in no way a backronym either.

[Dylan16807]

1. I think in this case it could plausibly be a coincidence.

2. One possible pronunciation is not at all a problem for talking about a project because you can just use a different one. Especially if the innocuous pronunciation makes more sense, as I think it does.

3. "Rather A Pokemon Emulator?" is a problem because it's an acronym. If you want something that applies to this situation, try something like "Car: A Pokemon Emulator". Saying that 'carape' or 'CarAPE' is offensive is pretty ridiculous.