Talking to humans instead of about users #190

I believe @aral made a lastening impression on me.

I'd like to get away from user as a term whenever possible.
Currently I'm walking through https://forgejo.org/docs/v1.19/user/first-repository/ and review it as part of the next release of Forgejo.

While I understand that there is some merit in calling it user documentation (because it is meant for people who use this software) I'm not okay with the term in

visiting another user’s repository

Because here it is about a person.

Similar to #171 I want to get opinions from the Forgejo community whether we can pledge to do better than the sources we derive our documentation from 🧡

Personally, I find this ridiculous.

I am a user who uses software created by developers and I am a developer who creates software to be used by users.

That's it.

I think the answer is, it depends.

Looking at the link provided I see places where it should and probably shouldn't be used.

For example I think the following is fine:

when visiting another user’s repository

or

Issues is a very important communication tool between the author, their users and their contributors.

But I feel this feels somewhat alien and odd:

"Star" to show the user your appreciation (and to help other users find interesting projects more quickly)

Which I think would be better served by simply removing the word like:

"Star" to show them your appreciation (and to help others find interesting projects more quickly)

In my opinion, the only problem with the term "user" is that it's ambiguous. Everyone who interacts with our software is using it. I prefer the term "end-user" because it disambiguates the people logging into the web interface and casually interacting with an instance from those who are managing the software.