There was a comment here that was seemingly downvoted or flagged into oblivion, but I think it raised a valid point about the domain name and TLD of sr.ht being a possible issue that could limit its potential growth.<p>As a paid subscriber and with all due respect to Drew, and as someone with a lot of experience with branding, I think it's a terrible name. It's not only not obvious how to pronounce it, but when you don't know how to pronounce it there's no real possibility of fumbling your way through it. It looks completely unpronounceable, until, of course, you add invisible vowels.<p>Worse, it's not particularly memorable.<p>All that said, developers tend to be more accepting (but not forgiving!) about weird names and unusual TLDs. So maybe it won't be an issue for sr.ht, no one can say with certainty. But if it were my project I would try to ensure I don't handicap myself from the start.
Thanks to Jake for writing about sr.ht, and to l2dy for submitting it! You might have seen yesterday that I'm going to be working on this (and other open source projects) full-time from now on:<p><a href="https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.html" rel="nofollow">https://drewdevault.com/2019/01/15/Im-doing-FOSS-full-time.h...</a><p>Big thanks to the HN community for helping to make it possible!
Very interesting project.<p>Also, they have some pretty hard rules around emails, e.g. no HTML (only plaintext).<p>> HTML emails are rejected by all sr.ht services.<p><a href="https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md" rel="nofollow">https://man.sr.ht/lists.sr.ht/etiquette.md</a>