Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: What is a Community in 5.0?

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4: Re: What is a Community in 5.0? (response to 3)
Posted by Tilmann Singer on 11/15/03 06:26 PM
Can't we just call it 'subsite' instead? For new users, neither community nor subsite will mean a lot, since it's one of these application specific terms (such as 'container') that only become meaningful when using the application a bit and getting a feel for it, whereas those familiar with openacs terminology are confused by the term 'community' as this thread shows.
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5: Re: What is a Community in 5.0? (response to 4)
Posted by Lars Pind on 11/16/03 03:26 AM
Please no.

Subsite has no meaning in any normal dictionary whatsoever.

I do believe that community tends to have a meaning to most people, and it surely have a meaning in a dictionary. Even ArsDigita once had a tag line along the lines of "purposeful communities".

I'm absolutely willing to subject this to a usability test, but lacking that, my impression is that community makes a hack of a lot more sense that "subsite".

/Lars

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6: Re: What is a Community in 5.0? (response to 4)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 11/16/03 10:06 AM
Our Headline says: "The Toolkit for Online Communities". Why should we call it subsite (which is a pure development term). So I will go with Lars there and say: please don't.