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.
Magazine
The dictionary says:
A periodical containing a collection of articles, stories, pictures, or other features.
I think it fits the literal definition of magazine, here on kbin a magazine is a collection of articles, stories, pictures or other features
Link
When you create a link you literally paste a link on the form that redirects to the article in another website
Thread - Post
A thread is a new topic. With your question you opened a new thread.
A post a single entry in a thread. Your question was the first post of your new thread, my comment is the second post in your thread.
Comment: to make a statement of one’s opinion
Discuss: to talk about (an issue) usually from various points of view and for the purpose of arriving at a decision or opinion
Most people participate to make a comment and that’s all
Badges - Labels
I think badges don’t work? So who cares?
They don’t sound like broken English at all, they are very literal and self explanatory. Maybe you are bad at English?
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 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.
What is conceptually different about a kbin magazine to a lemmy community?
@derin @mack123
here little observation https://kbin.social/m/arknights/p/911556 there is some differences…
I agree with changing magazine to community, but mostly for the sake of consistency across the fediverse. Changing posts to microposts or something similar will add some clarity, so it might be a good idea as well.
But the rest seems fine to me as is tbh.