# Replace the term “user” **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature\ **Created:** [February 8, 2023, 2:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467 "2023-02-08T14:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![mattdm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mattdm/32/216484_2.png) [@mattdm](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mattdm)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467/10 "2023-02-11T23:59:30Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Maybe just remove the "Community" header in the sidebar? (A plea!)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/maybe-just-remove-the-community-header-in-the-sidebar-a-plea/252854/19): This is a tangent from the thread above, and not _nearly_ as important to me, but while I’m making that point, I thought I should record this one as well. Discourse uses the term “Users” fairly promently to refer to the list of user accounts. If you are Discourse developer, you’ve maybe never thought about that — all Discourse forum users _are_ your users, naturally. But, many Discourse forums are deployed to handle conversations for products or projects, and those products and projects _have users of their own_. Those sites might very well have _users_ and _developers_ as different groups. Or _users_ and _testers_. Or _users_ and _potential buyers_. As we are merging the user-support site Ask Fedora into the formerly-mainly-for-project-contributors Fedora Discussion, this potential confusion stood out — we’re literally going to have a section of the site that is _for users_, and it isn’t the thing clearly labeled “Users” on the menu. I’ve renamed this to “People” on my site, and I think that actually might be a better general default. (Unlike “Community”, though, I have no emotional attachment to this one — I think it would make sense, and I hope you do to, but I don’t mind if you don’t agree or don’t care.) --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/replace-the-term-user/254467)._