Good point. We (the Sponsor R group) have done no usability testing nor are we planning to. I don’t think we really have the time or skills for that, unfortunately. Maybe Tor more broadly has resources to put into a sophisticated re-branding effort. In any case, we do use these words every day and can make an intentional choice now. And for some things, words just didn’t even exist.
Best, Aaron > On Feb 10, 2015, at 2:22 PM, Adam Shostack <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:13:26PM -0500, A. Johnson wrote: > | Hello all, > | > | Several of us [0] working on hidden services have been talking about > adopting better terminology. Some of the problem > > | 1. '''onion service''' should be preferred to refer to what is now > called a "hidden service". If other flavors of onion services develop in the > future, this term could refer to all of them, with more specific terms being > used when it is necessary to make the distinction. > | 2. '''onionsite''' should be preferred to refer to a website (i.e. an > HTTP service serving up HTML) available as an onion service. This can be > extended to other specific types of services, such as '''onion chatroom''', > '''onion storage''', '''onion cloud service''', etc. > | 3. '''onion address''' should be preferred to refer specifically to the > xyz.onion address itself. > | 4. '''onionspace''' should be used to refer to the set of available > onion services. For example, you can say “my site is in onionspace” instead > of “my site is in the Dark Web”. > | 5. '''onion namespace''' should be used to refer to the set of onion > addresses currently available or used "recently" (context-dependent). > | > > > Have you done usability testing to see how people react to the onion > terms, how explainable they are to non-technical journalists, or what > connotations it might have across cultures? > > My experience has been changing terminology is expensive and slow, and > it's worth exploring lots of alternatives. > > Adam > > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
