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“Twitter” or "X"’ or ”X (formerly Twitter)” #50841
Description
The platform has changed ownership and more importantly the name.
Currently we have 57 occurrences with the word “Twitter” as content on Transifex.
There are also a few occurrences with “X”, 5 to be precise. This is not easy to filter because of the great name ;-)
My question is, how do we deal with this?
Should we change “Twitter” in the strings to “X”? Or to “X (formerly Twitter)” (I vote for that).
Or do we not care and leave “Twitter”? (I don't know right now if the platform is still being used by Nextcloud)
The question came up on Transifex and I've also been contacted on Mastodon.
@gerbrent @jospoortvliet @jancborchardt @karlitschek ... any opinion ...
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provokateurin commentedon Feb 16, 2025
Given all the recent events, I'd like to say that I also see the option of removing all Twitter/X references and features entirely.
The values of the platform are largely against the values of Nextcloud these days, so I don't see much value in any feature related to it.
This is my private opinion and I understand that this might not be a good idea for the product, however I want to present it as another option since it also gets rid of this naming problem.
MaBoNi commentedon Feb 16, 2025
“X (formerly Twitter)” seems like a good alternative. It would also make the filtering easier if some crazy person decides it should suddenly be named by one of his other kids.
Maybe not in the near future, as it seems like he has a lot to do right now in the US government 😉
mwinkens commentedon Feb 17, 2025
At least an option to disable selected socials, like Twitter/X, is missing. The recent events are reason enough to disable it. I'd argue it would even be a good idea for the product, as there are customers who don't want to be associated with it
rakekniven commentedon Feb 17, 2025
This issue is purely about the name and its occurrence in the strings on Transifex.
Translators have reported this and I would like to clarify it.
Please stay on-topic. If you have change requests, such as deactivating entries/functions, then create your own issues.
joshtrichards commentedon Feb 17, 2025
It looks like ~50% of these references are from the
integration_twitterapp... which isn't maintained any longer. So those could probably be ignored?High profile spots like Personal Settings settled on using
X (formerly Twitter)last year (via #41385 and #48520). So maybe go with that?I do like the idea of making its presence optional, but, yeah, then it's outside the scope of this Issue. (#41554)
Remove sync of deprecated app integration_twitter
rakekniven commentedon Mar 6, 2025
See nextcloud/docker-ci#739