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Besides the awesome content - which is great for starters to grasp some basic concepts of tactics and pay attention to some common patterns on the checkboard -

I love the format too.

It's really a conversation, a chat, but with solid content and serious people. So following is really easy, and satisfying. (unlike audio/videos of interviews here you can go back and reread lots of times a passage you lost - which is good.)

So Kudos also to the Taaalk team for the great design and format.




I like the format and the content as well, but the domain name and company name seem pretty terrible, if I'm to be honest.

Imagine explaining it to a friend or prospective user.

"Yeah it's called Taaalk, just go to taaalk.co"

"What, talk.co?"

"No, you need 3 As."

user types 3 more As

"Taaaalk.co is giving me a 404."

"Sorry, you needed 2 more As, let's start over."

"Taalk.co?"

"Just google 'talk'. Actually, wait, don't do that..."

And for that matter, what is the official pronunciation? "Talk"? Or do you have to elongate the vowel? How long should you elongate it for?

Seems like they should decide on a new name before they invest too much into this one.


Yeah, but who shares URLs with their friends by speech these days? In fact, who really speaks?


Filthy peasants.


Or "Yeah it's called Taaalk.co with 3 As"


Even if you say that, a not insignificant number of users are still probably going to type either taalk.co or taaaalk.co to start with.


A .co domain costs that much?


I spent AGES trying to choose an easily pronounceable, non ambiguously spelled name for last project as I expected to have to tell people it a lot. A typical conversation goes:

"Just go to playlistful.com and..."

"Urgh, can't you just send me a link?"




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