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Are some of our least technical users, many of whom have never even seen a command line before and who may live in Sub-Saharan Africa or one of the Stan countries with only a rudimentary knowledge of English going to understand the difference between vanilla bridges and, say, chocolate almond bridges? Wouldn't it be better to choose terms that at least translate into something resembling what they actually mean?
Noted. What to call bridges without any pluggable transports has been argued about for years, with the result that everyone ended up calling them different things all over the place, which I believe is worse.
Eventually, everyone figured out what "obfsproxy" meant, even if they didn't understand how it worked, nor how to pronounce it. My hope is that a consistent usage of consistently confusing and untranslatable terminology will eventually produce predictable and steadily decreasing levels of user confusion.
Should the interface say "get transport unhuggable", perhaps? The obvious choices were:
`get tor bridges` / `get transport tor` This is no good because it could potentially cause users to erroneously think that pluggable transport bridges somehow aren't using tor.
`get plain bridges` I think this one is bad because people might assume that this one is somehow plaintext, especially if the string were to be translated.
Do you have a better suggestion for what to call "vanilla bridges"?
I think "bridges" works just fine for "vanilla bridges" and I want to take the opportunity to +1 Philipp's idea on looking for keywords instead of commands, regardless of how they're phrased.
For instance, if someone emails BridgeDB with "please send me some bridges" it should reply with a list of "vanilla bridges". or if someone emailed the word "obfs" and nothing else, the bot should return a list of obfs3 bridges.
PS: why are we still shipping obfs2 bridges?!
Bests,