Abbreviations in community posts

[sound.and.vision]

If you want that you may also want YG, Young Gangsta

I am very hip and street

[UltimateRiff]

another addition, SC for SoundCloud

@rob

We would love to work with them to be able to play and recommend SC content on LB.

might add BC for Bandcamp and AM for Apple Music while we’re here? (granted, those two also have alternate meanings, for years Before Christ and Amplitude Modulation for radio respectively)

[HibiscusKazeneko]

SC can also stand for Sens Critique, a website whose users often cross-post releases to MB.

[Jeluang]

LLM for Large Language Model because I know at least one person asked what it meant.

[UltimateRiff]

@UltimateRiff

there’s probably a several once you get to the BGM though

BGM is BackGround Music

[jesus2099]

@yuioen

yes ofc

I didn’t know that ofc means “of course”, thank you @chaban.
It is used from time to time, not a lot: 27 results in the forums.

[outsidecontext]

This looks so wrong

Could we at least add “Alternating Current” to the description to make the tooltip for AC/DC less awkward? And probably then also Direct Current for DC.

[dpr]

What does PR mean? - its used in the MB meeting notes…

[outsidecontext]

@dpr

What does PR mean?

It means Pull Request. It’s a way to provide source code changes with the Git version control system. The term is mostly used in GitHub. Of a developer has done code changes, e.g. for implementing a feature or fixing a bug, they open a PR on GitHub, where the code then can be reviewed and finally “pulled” into the main source code repository.

[jesus2099]

@outsidecontext

Could we at least add “Alternating Current” to the description to make the tooltip for AC/DC less awkward? And probably then also Direct Current for DC.

I think we should remove “ (or air conditioner)” and keep only the abbreviation that is commonly used for MB: “artist credit”.

I don’t think we should clutter our stuff with things we don’t use (aircon, current, socks, bananas), it’s just noise in our context.

[jesus2099]

@outsidecontext

Pull Request

BTW GitLab merge request is a really better name for the same thing IMO.

Maybe we could change this subtitle to “GitHub pull request”… It could be more helpful?

[outsidecontext]

@jesus2099

GitLab merge request is a really better name for the same thing IMO.

It is in the context of these tool’s UIs. The name “pull request” comes from the original way git was used. The idea of a distributed version control system like git is that each developer can have their own repository. If developer A wants their code changes put into the repository of developer B they send B a request (e.g. by e-mail) to “pull” the changes from A’s repository.

Nowadays only few projects fully work this way. Most have adapted code hosters like Github, Gitlab or Codeberg and work with semi-centralized repositories and pull/merge requests via the UI of those tools.

[jesus2099]

Then maybe “Git pull request” would put our readers more on the track than just “pull request” subtitle?

[dpr]

@outsidecontext

It means Pull Request. It’s a way to provide source code changes with the Git version control system. The term is mostly used in GitHub.

Thanks! I knew that! - I kept reading it as a “Problem Report” ( ITIL language)!

[UltimateRiff]

from Jira, GLHF is “Good Luck, Have Fun” (or maybe @rob is right, and it’s actually “Go long and hoark fast”…)

[jesus2099]

CD language:

@ernstlx

The code (written by LBR…

LBR stands for laser beam recorder.