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
I don’t see how “thread” doesn’t make sense. That’s how it was in forums as well. I also think “article” is way worse than “link”, because not every link is an article.
Changing magazine to community is fine (though I don’t really mind magazine).
I think thread should stay as is. Feels much more distinct than post, which could more easily refer to both threads & microblogs.
Link should stay. Makes it very clear what it does.
Post should definitely be changed, but I don’t get why it can’t just be microblog instead of blog. Makes it immediately clear what it’s for since there’s a microblogs tab in the header.
Commented is fine. Again, much more clear about what it means.
Badges don’t really do anything yet tmk, so I’d hold off on renaming them.
Magazine ->Community
Strong agreement.
Link -> Article
Maybe Link -> Website even, 'cause it’s not always an actual news article.
Thread -> Post
Agree, mainly because I think most of us would say “I’m going to post this on kbin” but I haven’t found a verb I like for …starting? a new ‘thread’ lol. “I’m going to thread this on kbin”??
And also for branding issues lol, vs that big company.
Post (In microblog) -> Blog
Room for improvement here, but good start I think.
Commented -> Discussed
I think Comments is fine. Discussion is fine. I actually think this is where “threads” could have been used lol, but let’s not.
Badges -> Labels
Labels is good. Badges isn’t quite right. Stamp? Banner? Flag?/kbin plans to eventually support every content type from federated software, and because of this, we cannot actually reserve the name
postto only one type of it. Still, microblog posts/toots/tweets need to be renamed and I prefer to call them Notes. This is already used in ActivityStream dictionary, and in Misskey andCalckeyFirefish.I dislike Notes because it is used in so many other ways also. Notes in other contexts are very often private. Post, Blog, and Microblog are all clearly shared. (I realize some might wonder, “How could anyone think that creating a new item called Note is private?!” I simply offer the feedback that the term Notes is used elsewhere to connote notes to oneself, and would prefer not to add any potential confusion.)
