alt Hacker NewsJust curious, is there something specific about Moltbot that makes it a terrible name? Like any connotations or associations or something? Non-native speaker here, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with it that would warrant the hate it's gotten. (But I agree that OpenClaw _sounds_ better)
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arrowsmith • today at 10:57 AM
No connotations or associations that I can think of it. It just sounds weird and is kinda hard to pronounce - doesn't roll off the tongue easily.
It's not the worst thing ever, it's just not a very aesthetically pleasing combination of sounds.
dist-epoch • today at 12:05 PM
In many non-English languages it's a terrible name to pronounce. the T-B letters link in particular. Not all languages have silent letters like English, you actually have to pronounce them.
Go on twitter and search 'maltbot', 'moldbot', 'multbot', etc - the name was just awful and easy to get wrong as its meaningless. I think the crux of it is that 'Molt' isnt a very commonly used word for most people so it just feels weird and wrong.
OpenClaw just sounds better, it's got that opensource connotation and just generally feels like a real product not a weirdly named thing you'll forget about in 5 minutes because you cant remember the name.