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Many of Kbin terms dont make sense.. Why not replace them? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Fitik@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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I am working on Russian translation of Kbin right now and I noticeed that many of Kbin terminology just sounds.. Like a bad translation (Maybe from Polish it was originally written on?..), and I am sure many of you can agree with me
So there are some of my suggestions of better names for things to make them more intuitive, espicially for new people and normies:

Magazine - Community
Link - Article
Thread - Post
Post(In microblog) - Blog
Commented - Discussed
Badges - Labels

If you have more suggestions write them in comments, I think kbin can be confusing as it is, and the wierd language makes it even more confusing for everyone

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[–] mack123@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Magazine makes sense as a differentiation from lemmy's community. The concept is different so a different word is needed. Thread feels like a throwback to reddit, but it makes sense in the threadverse concept.

I agree on blog though. There post feels cumbersome. Badges could probably use a rewording, but tag makes more sense to me there as an accepted word.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

"bin" would make sense and is also a little funny.

[–] Fitik@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I agree that tags makes more sense, but this word is used already
Perhaps it would be a better idea to replace Tags to Hashtags and Badges to Tags ?

[–] derin@lemmy.beru.co 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is conceptually different about a kbin magazine to a lemmy community?

[–] mack123@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

As far I know the grouping of the hashtags with the articles and links, in one container is specific to kbin. I like the concept. I may be wrong though. I have not spent much time on Lemmy.

[–] Kotking@mastodon.social 2 points 1 year ago

@derin @mack123
here little observation https://kbin.social/m/arknights/p/911556 there is some differences...