Name sounds like a shock site.

[will-ca]

I came here from an old Hacker News thread, when this was apparently still called "Littr".

I have no idea if the tech and platform is good or bad. At a glance it looks solid.

But Old Reddit particularly was infamous for …unfortunate subreddits that would get posted around in threads at random. And certain other ungulate-themed link aggregators inspired by Reddit have previously devolved into … As Wikipedia puts it, "a hub for the alt-right […] where users compete for shock value".

So when I see a website billed as similar to Reddit, but called "BrutaLinks", I tend to think I should probably not click that, and instead avoid finding out what it is.

I don't know if this is just a "me" problem, though I hope not entirely. I also don't mean this as a criticism or attack. The site and branding on its own looks clean, and pretty usable! But this is the Internet, and the name matters for the impression that people are going to have about a platform or project.

[mariusor]

Thank you for your input, my first reply would be that the name of the project needs not reflect the names/domains of the instances themselves.

And to me brutalinks sounds fine, it's a contraction of "brutalist links" (as it mainly shows links and the interface is quite basic, close to the brutalist architectural ethos), but the full thing would have been too much of a mouthful. Also the domain was available.

If you have some suggestions for less controversial names, I'm willing to entertain them. Before version 1.0 everything is still possible. :D

I would prefer though to receive them via the mailing list though, as I very rarely check PRs/issues on Github (as you could probably have already realized :P).