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I've heard a lot of people want to change app names. Which I'm totally fine with! I've heard a lot of love for the name "Voyager"

So, thoughts? Do you prefer renaming? Do you like the name "Voyager"? Any other good ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

wefwef is memorizable, but I'd like to know what it stands for

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I’d like to know what it stands for

literally nothing. It's a name I came up with out of pure laziness: it's where my fingers rest on the keyboard and I can type it one-handed 😂

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This alone already counts as lore!

I'd appreciate a new name, but now I'm conflicted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel the same way, liked the sound of Voyager but wefwef has a better back story. Wefwef is also more unique.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but try saying it out loud, then imagine trying to recommend it to someone. They’re gonna think you just barked at them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose its sounds so odd right now because it's new. A lot of company/app names sound kind of dumb until we get used to it. The names Tiktok, Twitter, Kijiji, Snapchat, Bumble, Reddit, all sounded silly to me when I first heard them. Now I don't even think twice about their names.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Good you can add a slogan: wefwef - save your right hand for more important tasks ;-)

Honestly I like the name wefwef. It is easily searchable especially when it is not exactly easy to search things across the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Organic names are the best names. "Voyager" sounds like something ChatGPT would come up with if you'd ask it to "name the next Apollo app".

Edit: I just asked and it gave me "StellarFeed".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Time to retcon a meaning for it now, if you're going to keep it. I'm really enjoying using it and the name is incidental, but I love a good invented mythology too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Will you make it an app or will it be web based forever?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let’s hope so!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank god! I was too afraid to ask and I thought I was just old and uncool for not knowing what it meant! 😅