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[Meta] Removing definitions from Decronym? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Two9A@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've had some feedback today that Decronym is "spamming" unrelated acronym definitions into threads that don't need them. Unfortunately, details of which acronyms are superfluous wasn't forthcoming, so:

From this list, which acronyms do you guys think can be removed as unnecessary to explain?

http://decronym.xyz/acronyms/selfhosted@lemmy_world

Edited to add: There've been instances of the bot "finding" acronyms that aren't mentioned in the thread, and speculation that vibecoding is at fault. The real answer, I think, is simpler.

Decronym uses a local Lemmy instance, and polls the database directly for new comments. Last time I tried to upgrade Lemmy, it went so badly I had to wipe the server and start over from a fresh Debian; threads on the fresh instance started from ID 1 again.

But Decronym's list of detected acronyms wasn't wiped, so it's been pointing at the wrong thread IDs this whole time.

I've now wiped the threads and detected acronyms for this comm, and the bot should behave more sensibly.

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[–] OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I agree with the person who suggested linking to Wikipedia articles.

For example, it's not much help to learn that PCIe stands for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express, because nobody calls it that. As an outsider, now I'm wondering what a component interconnect is. It's much more useful to link to a page that gives context about how PCIe is actually used.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure why someone would down vote this but, that's a spot on idea.