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by eli 4689 days ago
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)

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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.

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