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I mean that sounds pretty reasonable, could they just not think of a name that wasn't already in prevalent use? Was the goal to be unsearchable for anyone trying to find it?
That's like creating a reminders app and naming it task manager.
They renamed it Notion calendar, but Cron had pretty solid SEO. I much preferred its old name and theme.
Well that's great for them, but that also means that people searching for the cron that has had that name for 50 years are going to get irrelevant results for a calendar app.
I seriously doubt people looking for cron are going to be confused by a calendar app.
Help guys, every time I go to look up the mail command, the fucking USPS shows up.
The command line cron is used for scheduling tasks, so it seems reasonable that the search results could get muddled.
The command line mail is used for checking local system mail that crontab outputs to by default, so it seems reasonable that results could get muddled. Luckily I know how to use a search engine so that's unlikely.