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submitted 8 months ago by Star@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

All skiff users have received a mail in this regard and Skiff has also tweeted about the same.

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[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 8 months ago

Cron. They didn't shut it down though, they just suddenly transitioned it. I'd just started using Cron when they did it and it was very unexpected for me.

[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn't already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?

That's like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 8 months ago

They renamed it Notion calendar, but Cron had pretty solid SEO. I much preferred its old name and theme.

[-] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Well that's great for them, but that also means that people searching for the cron that has had that name for 50 years are going to get irrelevant results for a calendar app.

[-] sugartits@lemmy.world -3 points 8 months ago

Or a spreadsheet program and calling it Excel.

Or outlook, access...

The name doesn't matter if you can establish it.

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Their point isn't that it's a weird name that isn't descriptive of what the product does, their point is that cron is an already existing bit of software that does something else.

It'd be like if MS made a notes app called Steam, Google called a new camera app iTunes, or Apple rebranded Apple Music to PowerShell.

Minus the trademark infringement I guess. I doubt Cron has that.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Even worse is that it’s close enough.

Like “recur by specific days but not by months cron”

Is a valid search for both things. Only one came out in 1975 and has had that name forever, and one decided it would be cool to hijack it

[-] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

That's the one, and you're right, it is currently a rebrand but ultimately the same product.

I think having separate apps is the wrong way to go for their "integrate everything in one place" philosophy, over the longer term. I'm eager to see what they do with it next.

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