Rename 'sync-verify' to something else like 'sync confirmed'

[RetroEdit]

Recently, we introduced the functionality for users to formally indicate they've successfully played a movie back, and in the UI it's currently called 'sync verified'.

However, this is confusingly close to another piece of long-standing TAS terminology of 'console-verifying', where you play back a TAS on real console. I've seen multiple people getting confused about this, and I imagine it will be a perennial issue if it stays the same name.

Changing the terminology to 'sync confirmed' or something similar would be much clearer. Hopefully this would be a small change that only requires a small number of UI changes to the site.

[bigbass1997]

Unfortunately we have several very similar sounding terms that have very different definitions:

• sync verified
• console verified / tas verified / hardware verified
• verification movie

(with "verified" and "verification" being swappable)

For the issue at hand, I think "sync confirmed" could still get the point across while being a different enough term. Not sure if it'll entirely fix the confusion though.

The term "sync" by itself could be used to describe all three of the above situations. But historically it has usually referred to the first case, of syncing a TAS movie inside an emulator.

[vadosnaprimer]

What prevents 'sync confirmed' from being interpreted as console sync confirmation?

[YoshiRulz]

Convention.

This could be "playback confirmed" or "playback synced" and then it couldn't be confused with that.

[bigbass1997]

Given that we regularly say things such as "playback a TAS on hardware" when describing console verification, "playback confirmed" definitely does not reduce the confusion.