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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] 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t many Wefwef. I’ve heard much worse.

That said, if you are going to change it, do it now and move on.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wefwef is weirdly arresting. I know not what it means, but it has a ring to it that makes it unique.

Voyager is just meh. More of the same.

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

Yeah unique and weird names bring memory retention and invokes curiosity to attract new users.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

+1 for Voyager

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Voyager sounds good to me!

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

My vote for wefwef since it‘s unique and snappy.

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

Another GrecoRoman god (in the style of Apollo, as an homage)?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.

I guess I should have come up with a Voyager reference. My mind went to Star Trek ships

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

Apollos chief epithet, Phoebus is my vote. Though it seems to only be common among the ancients.

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

Someone already owns voyager.com - naming a product can be difficult these days as most common names are taken.

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

Voyager is fine, although Wef Wef is such a nice, unique name I actually love it a lot.

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

~~But wouldn't that damage your.. brand recognition, so to speak? When someone doesn't know you've changed your name and therefore can't find you, they'll assume you don't exist anymore.~~

Nvm all that, they'll learn. ;)

Voyager sounds way, way better than Wefwef, plus it's in the same theme as Apollo, so that's great!

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

Stick with wefwef. It has an originality unlike voyager (plenty of those)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I prefer voyager, or even “voyage”.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adding my vote to keep wefwef. I think it's more fun than Voyager or other options that have been proposed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Voyager sounds safer overall, but wefwef is cute and should be kept somewhere

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

I would love to have it as Voyager, because the app seems to be Apollo's spiritual successor so might as well embrace the identity. Also, seeing that there are concerns that Voyager is taken by X or Y the simple addition of LM to the name should make distinct and free from any attachments. So:

Voyager LM

I cast my vote

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adama or Starbuck

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Something like Voyager as suggested would be much more friendly to new users

Though personally I like both.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I think wefwef is a silly name and I’m surprised that so many people in the comment section like it, because I find the name to be cringeworthy (sorry).

But of course, I will still continue to use this app regardless of what it’s called, just like I still use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, despite it having a ridiculous name lol.

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

Having a silly and unique name helps the app in peoples memory retention. Imagine if it was edgy but forgettable. Nobody will remember it and it won't stand out amongst the multitude of lemmy apps being developed at the moment.

Wewef also invoke curiosity.

"What the hell is a wefwef?"

*searches google

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I respectfully disagree with you on the memorability of the name.

I would respectfully suggest that if someone hears the name of this app for the first time, and then had to mention it a week later, they might think “oh what was that silly name of the Lemmy app? Was is wepwep? wiffwaff?”… whereas I would find Voyager to be more memorable, and there isn’t confusion as to how it is spelled.

That being said, there is one area where I concede that wefwef would be a better name than Voyager, and that is SEO (search engine optimisation). If you type “wefwef” into Google (well I prefer to use DuckDuckGo lol), then you’ll find the web app on the first page, whereas searching “Voyager” will give you lots of Star Trek stuff to scroll past.

So if I were making the case for the name wefwef, I would argue the SEO aspect rather than the memorability aspect.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Vote for keeping wefwef. It’s kitschy and odd and unique.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I like the name wefwef reminds me of a cute dog barking at me.

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

Ez wefwef

For many ppl RIF is Reddit. For me wefwef is Lemmy.

Don't change.

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

I like the name, to be honest

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

Lemmynade? 🍋

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

Voyager sounds too generic. I like Wefwef

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

I prefer Wefwef, especially the dog barking sound. As an alternative I propose Lemlem - which sounds like a dog drinking.

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

"Athena". Same mythology theme as Apollo.

Functionality is what will keep people but having a better name, and establishing this as a spiritual successor to Apollo, will help get people through the door.

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

Change it if you want but “Voyager” sounds like some corporate nothing app named by bean pushers and commitees.

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

I love Voyager!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I like WefWef. like someone else mentioned, it makes me think of a little puppy learning to growl or bark, lol. Mostly though, its6 unique, easy to type, and gloriously well suited to finding via search engines. If you google "wefwef", the top result is your app's Github project, and the next few results are about the app as well. If you change to something like "Voyager", theres an awful lot of competition for those search results. It'll get buried under results about the space project and Star Trek. On a personal level aside from that, I'd vote for staying wefwef myself.

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