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Eugen Rochko

I'm not even changing the "toot!" button to anything, I'm just changing "someone boosted your toot" to "someone boosted your post" but you listen to how people are talking about it and it's the end of the world

21 Apr 2021 at 16:15 | Open on mastodon.social
24 comments
ScumbagDog

@Gargron
Look on the bright side: people evidently care a lot about what you say.

21 Apr 2021 at 16:17 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Mike Flugennock

@Gargron Not a bad choice, really. "Someone boosted your toot" always sounded to me like the punch line to a dirty joke.

21 Apr 2021 at 16:18 | Open on mastodon.social
hinged death kinnie

@gargron the end of the world is that you're disconnected from your community

21 Apr 2021 at 16:19 | Open on octodon.social
Mike Flugennock

@Gargron Not a bad choice, really. "Someone boosted your toot" always sounded to me like the punch line to a dirty joke.
21 Apr 2021 at 16:19 | Open on mastodon.social
VOLTUR

@Gargron tootn't gate is still on or is it off i can't tell anymore

21 Apr 2021 at 16:21 | Open on elekk.xyz
pela0 👽

@Gargron Well, it is the end of "someone boosted your toot" 😜

21 Apr 2021 at 16:30 | Open on mas.to
Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

@Gargron Well now it's just inconsistent. Us of Tootistan demand independence from Postland!

Click TOOT!

21 Apr 2021 at 16:32 | Open on appdot.net
Eugen Rochko

@mdhughes It's not inconsistent, one is a verb, one is a noun. I changed the nouns.

21 Apr 2021 at 16:32 | Open on mastodon.social
Digital Mark λ 📚 🕹 💾 🥃

@Gargron That actually makes it filthier. "I tooted a toot" is just some gas or noise. "I tooted a post" is… whoo… some drunk Rick Sanchez shenanigans.

21 Apr 2021 at 16:33 | Open on appdot.net
Eugen Rochko

@mdhughes The verb isn't actually used anywhere in any other tense other than on the button to publish a new post.

21 Apr 2021 at 16:37 | Open on mastodon.social
Sitrom Rogir

@Gargron There is nothing cooler than "someone tooted yor toot" :toot:

21 Apr 2021 at 16:33 | Open on mastodon.social
Hades' Main Chica

@Gargron Maybe people would be more accepting if you tell them why you're changing it?

21 Apr 2021 at 16:33 | Open on mstdn.social
Thor 🇳🇴
@Gargron afaik the protocol calls them "statuses" and "reblogs" and i feel these are adequate terms
21 Apr 2021 at 17:19 | Open on pl.thj.no
Eugen Rochko

@thor The protocol calls them notes and announces. Statuses and reblogs is what's been in the Mastodon code and REST API from the beginning.

Frankly, I like reblog more than boost because it's so much more self-explanatory, but alright, boost isn't the worst either. Status, it just sounds clunky, especially plural: statuses. Posts is better.

21 Apr 2021 at 17:19 | Open on mastodon.social
phii (local floofgirl cutie)

@Gargron Actually, the plural of status can also be status (not that this is better, tho).

And yeah, I also think that renaming toots to posts is somewhat a pity. It adds inconsistency, gives mastodon a representation for ignoring its communities wishes, invalidates lots of pre-existing toots that somehow reference the word "toots" (in a way, it isn't backwards-compatible, so to say), and removes culture and character from mastodon like removing the cocktail decorations from a cocktail party would.

Also, didn't the original pull request talk about way more UI naming changes than just the "someone boosted your post" message?

@Gargron Actually, the plural of status can also be status (not that this is better, tho).

And yeah, I also think that renaming toots to posts is somewhat a pity. It adds inconsistency, gives mastodon a representation for ignoring its communities wishes, invalidates lots of pre-existing toots that somehow reference the word "toots" (in a way, it isn't backwards-compatible, so to say), and removes culture and character from mastodon like removing the cocktail decorations from a cocktail party would.
21 Apr 2021 at 17:46 | Open on toot.phseiff.com
Atridad Lahiji

@Gargron
Seems like a silly thing to get wound up about. It's just words. Hey if they don't like it they can fork it and fork off. It's your code.

21 Apr 2021 at 18:07 | Open on social.atrilahiji.dev
neudre

@Gargron As much as I find toot super playful, I am also on team post. Had the same discussion in Eunomia and post won there too.

21 Apr 2021 at 19:08 | Open on mastodon.social
ars goatse

@Gargron change it to "someone boofed your toot"

21 Apr 2021 at 23:24 | Open on redroo.ml
Mustafa Kulle

@Gargron
Nothing beats Toots.
Let's keep it that way on Mastodon.
Thank you, Eugen. Loving Mastodon. #love #mastodon #toot

22 Apr 2021 at 0:02 | Open on mastodon.art
Pelican3301

@Gargron ...and you thought I was a mastodon.social problem child🤣mas.to/@Pelican3301/1061061150
22 Apr 2021 at 0:23 | Open on mas.to
Dawn Tåke 🏳️‍⚧️

@Gargron People just miss having something to bitch about over on Tumblr and their every change, so they're looking for crumbs anywhere they can get them.

23 Apr 2021 at 4:35 | Open on mastodon.social
GMate8

@Gargron I especially like the toot name. It makes Mastodon original.

23 Apr 2021 at 19:40 | Open on mastodon.online
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