Robust? Really?
So this is going to sound really pedantic, but it's these little details that really annoy me, and this one does every time I see it.
When I click on community it opens a page where there's a link to see all forums. And when I hover over that link, it tells me it's for a 'robust' list of all forums. How can you have a robust list? You can have a complete list, an all encapsulating list, a whole list, but a robust list?
Maybe it's the difference between American English, and British English, but robust to me means hardy, vigorous, durable - how does that relate to a list?
Anyone care to put me out of my misery? My teeth grinding has reached an all time peak 😁
@DeborahUK Heard your teeth grinding so I thought I'd pop in 😁!
Agree it's a fairly unusual word to use. Use it's opposite & you get "flimsy list". So robust list could be a more solid list?
Agree it's strange - at least to our UK eyes!
Definitive, full or comprehensive are the norms I'd say.
Hopefully someone in the know will enlighten our ponderings!
@IAmHere83
Blimey, sound sure does travel!
And some great words there to replace robust. Thanks for popping up!
Doesn't really fit with American English either
@DeborahUK if it makes you feel any better, "robust" is a term often used in computer science to describe a system that is resistant to failure. using this definition, it could technically be considered a "robust" list as it is the fallback to the community interface. i mean, i assumed this post was someone criticizing the security or functionality of the site, so it's a little out of place even in that context, but considering that they want to give off the impression of a strong community (which we have!), i don't think it's necessarily a bad choice.
it, in fact, might be the best on account of ideally no one would want to go to the forum list as it's being depreciated, so when invariably someone clicks on that and is like, "oh lord there is so much here", they are more comfortable backing out one single step.
theoretically.
but i'm pretty sure i could justify anything o.o;
related, i just used depreciated instead of deprecated.
/shame
So funny! 