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You're assuming the website is targeted at normal people. Considering the state of the software, I find that a suspicious assumption. Most likely, the jargon is used because the intended audience can understand it.


You may be right. Maybe its best to only have jargon until the software is ready for prime time.

My general counter argument to jargon filled websites is the great ending of Trading Places:

   What about lunch?
   The lobster or the cracked crab?
   What do you think?

   Can't we have both?
Why can't a website have both a clear explanation for normal people, followed by all the jargon necessary for the target audience?




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