Future Of Coding, Fear Of Clicking, Faceful Of Crisps … are all these changes intentionally funny?

the 2nd one and third one yes

I find it rather distracting… I would rather it kept the same Future Of Coding name

we had a long thread over it and concluded Future of Coding was too narrow and so it became post modern.

The recent naming policy makes this an insider’s club. Someone stumbling across this community will need to be told in a bit of detail what it is, rather than just knowing from its name. I don’t think this is good policy.

I find it confusing when changing between my slack workspaces. It’s not a big deal but what’s the point of constantly changing the name? what are these crisps doing here?!

Re op: yes, these changes are intentionally funny. Re "what's the point": fun! In any event, I've changed it to "Feeling of Computing", which is the name we'll be going with henceforth, since it better reflects the values I'd like the community to embody. Hopefully this change provides a bit of invigoration, in addition to the brief period of confusion. It'll be okay. I'm going to gradually switch stuff over to the new name, so apologies for any old/new side-by-side for the next bit. Re "insiders club": when the community was first exploding in popularity (2020-ish), the people who inferred what "future of coding" meant from the name often got it wrong — more often than not, in my estimation. We had to do quite a bit of work to help newcomers learn what this space is for. I don't think any name would make that work needless, but I believe the new name will make it easier.

Future of Computing

For anyone who hasn't read it, here's a writeup motivating the change: https://futureofcoding.org/the-name

Future “Feeling ‘Faceful of Crisps’ of Computing” of Coding