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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by fouc on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:05AM (#28301853)
Webcrate is a great name, however the "crate" term strongly implies archival in this context to me. So as a user, I would actually assume that it takes an archive/snapshot of every website that I bookmark. The website doesn't seem to indicate it can do this?
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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by spinax on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:14AM (#28301955)
For me, "crate" is now associated with anything rust (and I'm neither a rust person or a programmer) - if I see crate in relation to tech, "it has something to do with rust."
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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by sbarre on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:16AM (#28301973)
Interesting, I'll forever associate crates with vinyl records and DJing.. and I am a programmer, and not a DJ..

I guess context matters! ;-)

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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by betahuhn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:19AM (#28302015)
Funny how it means completely different things to different people. As a 18 year old I would never think of vinyl records when hearing "crates" :D
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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by spinax on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:18AM (#28302004)
I'm with you! It's possible that at one time I thought as you (also being a music fan), but in the past 5 (?) years you can't trip but to find someone talking about rust in the tech spaces. Not only context, but era (point in time?) as well.
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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by riffic on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:40PM (#28303748)
lol, this wouldn't be an HN thread without people bikeshedding over an app's name, would it?
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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by fouc on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @07:58PM (#28308792)
The programmer's curse - naming things.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

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Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool by betahuhn on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:18AM (#28302003)
Nope, not at this time. You can only store the URL itself in a "crate".

Glad you like the name though!

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