Custom bangs are a terrific feature of Orion, but there's a (readily fixable) flaw in the make-a-custom-bang page, which needlessly confuses users. First, take a look at the bangs page:
See how the leftmost column is headed "Name"? That makes perfect sense; that's the name of where the bang will take me if I trigger it. It could be the site's domain (slantsix.org), it could be just the site's name (Bluesky), or it could be whatever else.
But now take a look at what the user sees when they will go to create a new bang:
First question asked: "Search engine name". Um…wait, what? No, I don't want to create a bang for a search engine; I want to create a bang for [my bank, my Jell-O art forum site, whatever], why do I have to put in a search engine name?
I went in circles with this the first day I tried to make new bangs for myself. I tried leaving that field blank, and the bang would not be created. Finally I figured out that what's actually being asked is "Hey, what do you want to call this bang so you'll recognise it in your list of bangs?".
Please reword the text above that first field. "New bang name" or "Name your new bang" would be much better than what's there now.
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