The comments in this thread are amazing, especially with the HN guideline of, "Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."
Not everything that someone writes or builds adjacent to technology that's provided for free has to be useful in professional contexts.
If the name is the only thing that you can focus on, try to have some fun with it.
You certainly don't have to use Vore, but if you do decide to use it AND you enjoy puns and other wordplay, I believe you're also obligated by circumstance to consume the Reader's Digest RSS feeds [0] too.
Name aside (feeds, get it?), I think the idea is cool. Your feed becomes a publicly accessible page you can share with anyone or access without having to log in.
There are just two features I would need to use this as a serious feed reader, though:
1. Autodetection of RSS feeds on pages. Some websites, such as YouTube, have feeds with cryptic URLs, so it's annoying to maintain a list of those links. I instead keep a list of YouTube account URLs and let the reader find the corresponding RSS link when I paste it in.
2. Subcategories. With Vore, you would have to create a new account for each collection of feeds in order to separate them.
I use RSS. I want to like RSS, but most sites want the eyes/clicks, so RSS isn't nearly as useful and pleasant as it used to me.
So the only feeds that go in my RSS reader are those that let me read at least half the article to decide if I want to continue. Others I like to visit often end up in a feeds bookmark folder.
Scant few, like itsfoss.com let you read the entire article/post anymore.
I don't see ads anyway. It'd be nice if they just added a short "please consider supporting..." or something to the feed. What really torques me is when I have a subscription but the feed still only gives me the first paragraph.
Hard pass. The name is funny, but an RSS reader that doesn't run on my own hardware is destined to, at best, close down, and at worst, become a cesspit of ads.
That name is certainly a choice..! Not something I would normally associate with minimalism and certainly not a website I'm going to open at work but hey
In an... isolated context, considering the purpose is to consume feeds, "vore" could have felt appropriate, especially if cursory research was limited to the dictionary...
There's not really a way to put this nicely, but vore is a terrible name. If you don't know, it's a surprisingly popular fetish category and not something I would ever want to type into a search engine.
What's rude is highly regional though, I'm sure "git" could be considered very rude in some places while not at all in some. Just like "cunt" isn't as rude in some places as in others.
I bet most people who don't frequent tumblr/reddit et al don't have the slightest idea of what "vore" is. The internet is pretty large, and humans are pretty clueless on average.
That was the first thing I thought when I read the title, and is the reason I did not click the link. I had the misfortune of being exposed to images of this sort by someone back in school and I'm not exactly desirous of experiencing that again.
Being provocative gets eyeballs. In this situation am I the chewer and the rss feed is the chewed? Which one of us is feeling aroused by it? The feeds? I hope it’s the feeds.
Open source is increasingly a kink friendly space where people are encouraged to let their freak flag fly. See also, e.g., cargo-mommy: https://github.com/Gankra/cargo-mommy
I call bs -- that is weasel words. regarding the "truth" that statement, once someone said to me that tech content is like the surface of a balloon being blown up.. each area on the surface gets larger for sure, but also more distant to the others.
kink content is, was, and always will be a "bug light" attractor to certain people.. that is not at all the same as whatever this one-liner says
There is a difference between being kink friendly and exposing your kink to the public, including minors. There is a time and place for everything, and involving potentially unconsenting people in your kink by "letting your freak flag fly" is wrong and has nothing to do with being kink friendly.
Ignore all of the Very Serious And ProfessionalTM yuppies. The project name is hilarious. This kind of thing is what makes the internet a fun place and not just a glorified project portfolio for the humorless.
