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> Aside from that, very weird name. Kind of annoying actually and sort of ruins the whole thing anyway.

Can you elaborate on this? This seems like a very extreme reaction.

The website shows

> vore (noun combining form) > ˌvō(ə)r, ˌvȯ(ə)r, ˌvōə, ˌvȯ(ə) > : one that eats (something specified)

which seems like something appropriate for an RSS reader if I connect enough nodes of ideas.

It is commonly used as a short form of vorophilia, i.e. sexual pleasure from (the idea of) being eaten/eating somebody, usually only in a fantasy rather than realistic context from what I gather.

If someone goes to that meaning instead of the simple one "to eat", as in carnivore, herbivore it seams that maybe someone has bigger problems that disliking a RSS reader for the name.

Well, many people do have those bigger problems, shouldn't we consider them?

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