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Rebrand from BI Exam Collection to BI File Collection

Yuto Takano requested to merge yutotakano/rebrand-to-file-collection into master

"Exam Collection" was not an accurate name to represent a service that shares not just exams but summaries, cheatsheets, and other user-submitted documents.

A discussion on Discord suggested the following ideas for the service name:

  • BetterInformatics Resource Database (BIRD)
  • BetterInformatics Files
  • BetterInformatics Exam Collection

with domain ideas being:

  • bird.betterinformatics.com
  • files.betterinformatics.com
  • resources.betterinformatics.com
  • exams.betterinformatics.com

The following is my rationale for I was the one who chose File Collection:

  • Naming this service as "Resources" makes it quite confusing when paired with the link-aggregation knowledgebase service (the OG BetterInformatics), which also serves resources. Similarly, a subdomain of "resources" is quite long to both say and type, and the shorter version "res" is too ambiguous and easy to forget.
  • BIRD is extremely cool as an acronym, but the domain would be hard to recall. Using a different subdomain as the name would reduce memorability.
  • "BetterInformatics Files" is plain and nice, but doesn't really go well when you want to refer to it in conversation ("oh check out Files") -- so I made it two words long (borrowing from Exam Collection) to make the service easier to distinguish from just a noun in passing

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