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This document was written by Urbit devs, and for Urbit devs.

Plunder is not an obscurantist project, and intends to be straightforward and easy to understand.

Thanks for working on this. Have you considered abandoning urbit references and nomenclature? I've been casually following urbit a long time, and think there's a case to be made that it has accumulated enough toxic baggage to rub off on onto any project with even a whiff of association. I mean, you can see this thread as well as I can. Would it be realistic or possible to keep what you've got in plunder but reframe it in such a way as to make it less susceptible to guilt by association?

there are pretty few mentions of Urbit in the core Plunder project/codebase & many of the core concepts are different (and more conventional, I might add).

https://sr.ht/~plan/plunder/

    ~/projects/plunder ‹master› » grep -i urbit -r . | wc -l
    5

I've been following along w/ Plunder for the past 10ish months and I essentially "bounced off" of Urbit's (imo) opaque terminology, opting to learn Plunder instead as it seemed much more concise and better conceptually distilled. not knowing Urbit has not been much of a hindrance. so I think the "guilt by association" you are seeing comes more from the framing of the above gist, which was aimed at an Urbit audience & cross-posted to HN by someone not associated w/ Plunder.

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