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Remove "Turn your server up to 11." idiom from home page. #165

Open Phoenix616 opened 2 years ago

Phoenix616 commented 2 years ago

While this idiom is probably good to represent what Paper is about and it might be very obvious to most native English speakers as well as well-versed non-native ones it's often not easily understood by speakers who's languages don't have similar expressions.

Especially in the age of Java versions that use that number as their version number (and those Java versions no longer being compatible) it can even lead to the assumption that Paper would be a server that is able to run on Java 11 (compared to the old Java 8 or maybe the Java 17 requirement of Vanilla/Spigot)

I'm sure this isn't an important issue but maybe we could use this issue to crowdsource a less confusing text? I would've directly opened a PR for it if I had an amazing idea but unfortunately that wasn't the case right now so an issue it is...

DerSimeon commented 1 year ago

Very good Point! I agree that this is something that, while it's not very important, should be changed.

How about "Make your Server better than good.", "The giant leap for your Server." or "thin but powerful difference" (being a reference to paper being thin/slim)

while those Ideas are clearly not the best, they do sound a bit clearer and easier to understand than "Turn your server up to 11."

~Simeon

Owen1212055 commented 1 year ago

The website is being rewritten (see facelift) Donno if this idiom is sticking around or not.