From 326e4b3864ba05cfc40989f8db643c88faad1062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?nicole=20miko=C5=82ajczyk?= Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:46:33 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] update readme MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Signed-off-by: nicole mikołajczyk --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 09f2e3023..69d66bec2 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ Code contributions are welcome. I will provide contributing guidelines after I d Translation status +## FAQ / Common misconceptions + +### What does the project name mean? + +I named the project after my personal fork of Pleroma, called simply `pl`, which I don't really recommend running in production. They were meant to be recommended together. However, `pl-fe` evolved into something more serious than a little fork. This is a bad and confusing name, but I don't really care about branding. + +I will bite people calling `pl-fe` *Polish front-end* or *Polish Soapbox*. And I don't mean sending them the [`Bite` activity](https://ns.mia.jetzt/as/) (which work in pl-fe on supported backends btw). + ## License `pl-fe` is a fork of [Soapbox](https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/) and inherits a lot of code from [Mastodon](https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/).