Collective nouns are names for a collection or a number of people or things. While there are many examples of collective nouns available online, there are not any well-known resources for collective nouns related to the web.
- Arsenal
- A StackOverflow question with 6 or more popular answers.
- Braintrust
- A group, typically made of executives, that have the power to proverbially swoop and poop on a project.
- Diatribe
- A group of comments left on a pull-request that ultimately change the original scope of the work.
- Gommit
- A group of commits submitted as a single commit.
- Hot Minute
- A number of hours spent fixing a bug that ultimately ended up being a typo.
- Megabyte
- Enough developers to drive a consensus that 1 megabyte of JavaScript is entirely reasonable.
- Parade
- So many RSS feeds that you have to scroll to see them all.
- Quabble
- Social media responses or posts that spawn from an especially hot or unpleasant take.
- Rendering
- Three or more single-page applications mashed together to appear as a single app to the end user.
- Roost
- Four (4) or more levels of nesting in Sass.
- Tababyte
- Eight (8) open browser tabs in the same window. For example, two tababytes are equal to 16 open tabs.
- Vanity
- Ten (10) or more domains owned by a single person, where very few are in use.
- Xuabble
- Responses or quote xeets that spawn from an especially hot take on X.