why the choice to call the groups magazines?

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    1 year ago

    First of all, I deeply appreciate the work you’ve put into developing kbin. Thank you very much for making this happen.

    As a new user, I was completely confused and overwhelmed by kbin’s numerous terms. To be honest with you, I hate the term “magazine” in this context. Magazine are static one-sided publishing while readers consume without any contribution or interaction. “Communities” make much more sense. Please please please please consider changing this name.

    Now back to the numerous terms: magazines, threads, microblogs, articles, posts… I don’t know why it is necessary to be so complicated. I am never interested in microblogs, but when I tried to write a new post I got automatically redirected to microblog. Then I realised I needed to write an “article”. But no, I am not a publisher, and I and not a researcher. I don’t want to write an article. Please let a post be a post.