[stanislavb]

With this is in place. A ".coop" domain does not signal trustworthiness. It's more like a childish revenge attempt. Don't get me wrong. I think it's a great idea for the original maintainers to begin work on a form. However, they could have chosen a better domain name.

[florkbork]

Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.coop

Think about all of the organisational structures you know of.

Then ask yourself how is a cooperative fundamentally untrustworthy?

[hatthew]

My first-order heuristic is that legitimate websites tend to get one of the top TLDs (.com/.org, maybe .net/.io). In general, why should I trust domain_name.xyz over domain_name.com? There are obvious caveats, e.g. it doesn't matter as much for generic words like "gem" and for personal sites that I don't trust much in the first place. In this case, 3 seconds of critical thinking makes it clear that they have a plausible reason for choosing .coop. But given that much of this controversy is premised on toolchain trust, there's plenty of other domains that seem even more trustworthy to me at first glance, e.g. gem-lib.org, gemcoop.org, stuff like that.

Again, a domain name is pretty minor in the scope of this whole fiasco, and I wouldn't have bothered with bringing up this point, but on balance I agree with it.

[gowld]

Nothing here instills trust or makes me want to learn more.

https://register.coop/

https://register.coop/services/

[monkaiju]

I view ".coop" quite highly given it is restricted to actual, legally recognized, cooperatives. Its definitionally more meaningful and "trustworthy" than .com or .org

[mijoharas]

I saw someone else saying something about the domain name, but I didn't really give it a second thought when I read it.

Can you explain what the issue is?

[seanw444]

I'd only say it's a real issue if this were a "normie-facing" website. But being a developer tool, we all know that there are legitimate domains other than .com, .org, and .net.

[LexiMax]

It's one of those "attractive distractions" that us nerds like to bikeshed over.

Honestly, after "tweet" caught on as a verb, I've given up on thinking that we have any sort of crystal ball when it comes to names.

[soraminazuki]

What? Which part of the word "co-op" sounds like a "childish revenge attempt"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

It's a word that nicely captures their objectives.

[lawilli]

Maybe they read it like “coup”?

[skywhopper]

Coop as in co-op, as in “co-operative”.

[JimmaDaRustla]

> It's more like a childish revenge attempt.

Gaslight much? "coop" implies intention and direction...you know, that thing that rubygems.org could have used?