SWI-11363 copy: replace "Blocker" with "No direct equivalent" - #25
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"Blocker" reads to a developer as "requires some dev work," but to a non-technical reader it lands as a red flag about Bandwidth's capabilities. The tier means something narrower and more neutral: this Twilio verb has no BXML counterpart, so it needs a redesign rather than a translation. The tool already had softer vocabulary for exactly this concept — the playground pill says "No equivalent" and its summary line says "have no direct equivalent" — so this aligns the remaining labels with wording the UI was already using. Display strings only. Internal identifiers (the Bucket union, counts.blocker, the blockers array, coverage.json's blockers key) are untouched, so nothing parsing the machine-readable output breaks. - Playground: tile label and section heading - Compatibility Check report: section heading, score-formula text - BXML Generator report: section heading, document summary line - README, web/README: the works-as-is / heads-up / blocker triad - Section emoji 🛑 -> 🔧, so the icon de-escalates with the word
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The word was the problem, not the icon. "No direct equivalent" already reframes the tier as a difference rather than a verdict on Bandwidth, and a loud stop sign still matches how the rest of the tool signals "this one needs a human." Reverts the 🔧 swap from the previous commit.
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Renames the third compatibility tier from "Blocker" to "No direct equivalent" in every user-facing label. To a developer, "blocker" reads as "requires some dev work" — but to a non-technical reader it lands as a red flag about Bandwidth's capabilities. The tier actually means something narrower and more neutral: this Twilio verb has no BXML counterpart, so it needs a redesign rather than a translation.
Feedback from an internal enablement session.
Why this wording
The tool already had softer vocabulary for exactly this concept and only used "Blocker" in a few leftover spots:
web/view-model.ts— the pill for this bucket already reads"No equivalent"web/app.ts:93— the summary sentence already reads "…have no direct equivalent"So this aligns the remaining labels with wording the UI was already using, rather than inventing a euphemism. It also stays honest: verbs in this bucket (
Enqueue,Queue,Client,Pay) have no Bandwidth primitive at all, and "no direct equivalent" says that plainly. Softening further would have undercut the fail-loudly-never-silently promise in the README.The 🛑 section emoji stays. The word was the problem, not the icon — a loud stop sign still matches how the rest of the tool signals "this one needs a human."
Scope: display strings only
Internal identifiers are deliberately untouched — the
Bucketunion member,counts.blocker, theblockersarray, andcoverage.json'sblockerskey all stay as-is, so nothing parsing the machine-readable output breaks.web/README.mdworks-as-is / heads-up / blockertriadBefore / after
Verification
npm run typecheck— cleannpm test— 303/303 passingnpm run playground:build— 4 occurrences of the new label in the built HTML, no staleBlockerlabels<Enqueue>to confirm the new headings and summary line read correctly in contextReviewer notes
examples/full-pv-app/server.js:4. Whichever merges second needs the trivially-merged result:// clean through the translator: nothing lacking a direct equivalent, only expected heads-up notes."No equivalent"rather than the full"No direct equivalent", kept short because it's a space-constrained badge. Easy to align if you'd rather they match exactly.🤖 Generated with Claude Code