Doxing is more than exposure. It's exposing someone's real world identity online, often with the intent to harm them. It's the harming portion that I think most people are objecting to. While I doubt most of us have enough online notoriety for us to be targeted in this kind of attack, the idea is still very uncomfortable personally.

It's a very pejorative term that is used with malicious intent. You don't understand why folk find it off-putting?

What about something like mdocx?

If you keep having to explain why the name isn’t offensive/distasteful, it probably is (at least to a meaningful portion of the population).

Out of all the names this could have had, "doxx" is probably the absolute worst. "Wordplay" doesn't excuse bad taste. I'm not sure how many comments about it will convince you of that.

>"Exposing" word documents in the CLI.

You're trying way too hard.

> "Exposing" word documents in the CLI

Exposing contents is called a leak. Doxxing is exposure of a person's identity/address etc.

There is no wordplay here that actually fits what this tool does. This is just a very misleading name.

Hi @w108bmg i get where you're coming from...And, if your intent is to use this wonderful tool that you built for you and some small circle of friends, etc..., then the naming is of course, your choice, and you can do what you want! But, you did post it on hacker news, and you did ask for feedback. If your intent is to have this cool app be used by more users, then you should consider the feedback that you're getting here. Should all this feedback represent every single possible user? No! Let's face it, hacker news has a lot of tech-savvy users...so there's many different types of potential users not accounted for here, and so it would be good for you to get feedback from other users that you want using your app...if you want that.

This software is your baby...but if you named your baby something that possibly repels others, you should feel comfortable with that feedback going forward. i don;t mean that in a bad way, simply a fact of how humans (good or bad) respond to things. This is all simply a series of signals. What you do with that is your business of course.

By the way, have you considered a more boring name for the app like *DocSee*? :-)