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Should I cancel? (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by canpolat@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think termínate is a better term. I don’t think it would be used because some UX person would worry about associations with robot assassins and people being fired, but terminating the subscription is the best technical term.

Canceling is preventing some future thing from happening. At best, you are cancelling a scheduled auto-renewal. But to end an ongoing thing is to terminate.

[–] madkarlsson@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

You are talking about synonyms here, and its highly subjective. The above poster has some good points with the more clear verbs but this whole end of the flow would work just as well as well with a "yes, I'm sure" and "no" instead of cancel