"This is a vacuum" > "This is a Hoover alternative".

Describing what the tool is for usually is better than referencing a brand name that not everyone would be as familiar with.

Snark like this, on the basis of ones own lack of knowledge, is one of those things that make you wonder how we ever got anywhere.

I don't like descriptions mentioning what they're trying to replace. I don't know what Lightroom is and what it's used for. A project description should be stand-alone and should tell me why I need it without riding on some other projects' name recognition.

No offense, but "lightable" and "darkroom" are well established photography terms.

A lighttable is literally a table with a light source under the table body and was used to easily and quickly "see" your developed film strips or frames to pick what you want "printed" on paper. There is also the term "loupe", which derives from the magnifying tool used to see details on the otherwise quite small negatives.

Darkroom is a dark room where you can print your negatives on photo sensitive paper, you need the room to be dark, so ambient light doesn't affect the print process.

These two terms have nothing to do with Adobe.

I know what a dark room room is, I've used one in school. I don't know of the application Lightroom. Why would I take offense?

Quite literally on the github home page it says that "darktable is not a free Adobe® Lightroom® replacement."

That doesn't mean it's not an alternative to Lightroom. That was put in for reasons discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27722258

The feature list, description and thumbnail of the UI begs to differ.

Don’t forget the name!

Both of these are film terms.