| ▲ | lynx97 3 hours ago |
| Means "punishment" in german, weird name. |
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| ▲ | TheDong 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| And "discord" means "disagreement", "lack of harmony", "arguments" in English. Even weirder name for a chat application in an even more commonly used language. "Slack" associates pretty strongly with "slack off" (get no work done) too, so that one's also strange. I think "Zulip" has the best naming of all these. |
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| ▲ | chrysoprace 29 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | I figured Slack referred to slack in task time estimation i.e. the amount of extra time allowed in a task. Collaborating on Slack would count towards that time. | |
| ▲ | ButlerianJihad 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | The only explanation I can offer for “Slack” is that its founders and top brass have been adherents of the “parody religion” Church of the SubGenius, and have successfully interposed themselves into the everyday business machinations of a wide swath of Western businesses. Meanwhile, “Discord” wouldn’t surprise me if it were a product of the Discordians themselves, a similarly disorganized “parody religion”. | | |
| ▲ | Leynos 31 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Slack is also allowance in budgets (time, finance, materials) to allow for unplanned pressures, demands or constraints. | |
| ▲ | SubGenius 12 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > “parody religion” Church of the SubGenius Not a parody religion at all. It's very real. | |
| ▲ | anonym29 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Slack stands for Searchable Log of All Conversations and Knowledge. Prior to that, it was going to be "linefeed". | | |
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| ▲ | Dilettante_ 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| "Discord becomes strife cause that means kinda the same thing, strife becomes strafe cause that's a gamer term" is the completely german-less train-of-thought I could imagine leading to this name |
