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Change "Self Text" to "Text" in post submit activity

Open jidanni opened this issue 1 year ago • 4 comments

Do not say "self text". Nobody knows what you're talking about. It's not proper English. Screenshot_20240525_202733_RedReader

jidanni avatar May 25 '24 12:05 jidanni

"Self text" has historically been Reddit's terminology for the text associated with a "self post". They seem to have moved towards "text post", so I have no objection to us renaming this field to just "text".

QuantumBadger avatar May 25 '24 17:05 QuantumBadger

In fact the word "self" is splattered all over the place.

Screenshot_20240527_130223_RedReader.jpg

But I've never noticed it when using their official products.

In fact it looks like some kind of object oriented coding internal error if you ask me.

So you might want to go through all your code looking for every instance of it. Thanks.

jidanni avatar May 27 '24 05:05 jidanni

That's incorrect. As I say above, it's terminology directly from Reddit itself. In fact the text you circled in red is displayed exactly as it's returned from the Reddit API.

Explanation from a former Reddit employee:

https://old.reddit.com/r/help/comments/2bmy3l/what_does_the_self_in_for_example_selfhelp_refer/

RedReader isn't written in a language that uses self as a keyword.

QuantumBadger avatar May 27 '24 09:05 QuantumBadger

Well OK, but one doesn't want raw API::names coming in direct contact with users... Let's not be selfish :-)

jidanni avatar May 27 '24 10:05 jidanni

The Reddit site has historically shown the same self label, in the post domain as shown above (and still does on old.reddit.com) -- it's not just some internal API string. In any case I've updated the submit activity field label, it'll be in the next release.

QuantumBadger avatar Jul 06 '24 12:07 QuantumBadger