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For those wondering Tornado here appears to refer to Tornado Cash [1].

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/8/8/us-announces-sanctio...

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Oof. The confusing title could do with some editing then (capitalize 'Tornado' for one).

I thought they were contributing to the Python web framework called Tornado (quite popular especially before asyncio caught on, but still well-known nowadays).

I was like "what's a tornado repo? a reference I don't know about to a whirlwind of activity? maybe a bot attack of some kind."

+1 disambiguation needed

Some of my repos look like they were hit by a tornado and frankly deserve to be deleted

When your code is so bad that the US Government sanctions you, specifically

i thought it was like a tornado warnings repo

Just reading the comments, I also was thinking this was about Python's tornado library until I recognized it wasn't that. The title needs improvement.

CC @dang

I emailed a title suggestion switching to "... Tornado Cash ..." for clarification.

I wish typing "cc @dang" did something, but to the best of my knowledge it does not / isn't monitored vs email.

Same. Confusing title.

@dang could be worth a s/tornado/Tornado Cash/ in the title

Ya, really need to change the title. Tornado is known to many as the python web server.

Yeah... and you know... a natural weather phenomenon. I thought this was about storm chasers or something.

We've put that in the title now.

tornado repos sounds like some kind of evil financial product

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