630326 - Input is a confusing name

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Input :: General, defect)

Description

[Steve Fink [:sfink] [:s:]]

Feel free to hate me for this, but I really dislike the name 'input'. The first several times I saw a mention of "input.mozilla.com", I ignored it because I assumed it had to do with entering non-Latin characters, and perhaps mouse and camera processing. (It's a big topic when you're using a language other than English, so I wasn't surprised at its prominence.)

If it had said something like feedback.mozilla.com, I would have paid a lot more attention, since feedback *is* something I care a lot about.

Thanks for listening.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Thank you for your concern, and thanks for all the enhancement bugs you've been filing. We really appreciate your contribution and you're helping us to improve Input over time.

I understand that Input is not as obvious as Feedback, but as the in-product links are quite obviously worded (on both betas and later in Firefox 4 final), I think we are fine. Renaming the project is not currently on our radar.