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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by netmau5 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @04:32PM (#1744717)
Maybe I don't get it, but this seems like a truly horrible name. I didn't have an idea of what the site was for from the name and even reading Joel's post left it a little vague. Once I was there, I got a feel for what was going on, but I still don't think I will remember the place.

For a site aimed at users, why use a name referring to webapp distribution?

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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by cobbal on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:36PM (#1745307)
It was the highest voted domain name by the community http://meta.nothingtoinstall.com/questions/108/what-should-o...
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by duck on Thursday September 30, 2010 @10:53PM (#1745799)
All the politicians in office right now were the highest voted, but that doesn't mean they are good. I didn't click on on the referenced link as I don't even want to know what was second worse.
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by baddox on Thursday September 30, 2010 @06:37PM (#1745166)
The name is bad. When I first saw the headline here on hn, my first thought was "portable apps" followed by "live linux cd's."
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by citricsquid on Thursday September 30, 2010 @04:58PM (#1744821)
I thought it made sense... well as much as "stackoverflow" does.
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by plorkyeran on Thursday September 30, 2010 @08:59PM (#1745534)
Stack Overflow is at least obviously programming-related.
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by brown9-2 on Thursday September 30, 2010 @07:27PM (#1745293)
webapps.stackexchange.com seems like it would be a better name to me. Not so sure why they'd want to not continue to use subdomains of stackexchange.com.
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by devhn on Thursday September 30, 2010 @06:11PM (#1745097)
Agreed. Especially when something like WebAppAnswers.com remains unregistered. Selecting good domains is a dying art.
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Re:Nothingtoinstall.com now live by spicyj on Thursday September 30, 2010 @04:44PM (#1744766)
The site is a Q/A forum for web apps.
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