Already mentioned here before: https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1066547670477488128

It's like every time anyone writes anything about CockroachDB, the top comment has to be "yeah but the name tho..."

They should change the name! It's a terrible name and it's cost them an inestimable amount of users.

They should change the name to “Clockroach” considering they lose correctness guarantees when the clock drifts beyond a preconfigured uncertainty window.

They who place shallow attributes above merit, deserve neither.

If they gave it a stupid name, why would they be any smarter in the development of the system itself? The name clearly indicates a lack of wisdom.

First impressions matter.

First impressions matter mostly to those who are influenced by them. Many scams have been successful because of exactly that.

A stupid name might do well on search engines for example (as in, those names could be easily searched)

Furthermore I don't really consider the name to be stupid. I don't quite really know of many other ways of succinctly highlighting resilience as a property in a name.

For me, it just shows up as a bunch of text, approximately divided into paragraphs, with images interspersed, which I can scroll through. Is it different for you?

Neither do I, but the content is interesting, lets not let preferred form detract from the discussion.

Twitter seems to be in this weird space where they have enough usability positives over other social media (pretty broadly accessible, doesn't pester you to log in, you can post NSFW content without it getting taken down) that I guess people just force themselves to use it, even if a blog post would be better formatted.

I think it’s the combination of feeling easy to do (both UI & not feeling pressure to write a formal essay) and getting immediate feedback. For most people blogging is mostly solitary in comparison.

Twitter does pester you to log in when scrolling down someone's profile, I think. Maybe it was on mobile.