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.
wefwef is now Voyager! Subscribe to [email protected].
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.
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.
Yeah unique and weird names bring memory retention and invokes curiosity to attract new users.
+1 for Voyager
Voyager sounds good to me!
My vote for wefwef since it‘s unique and snappy.
Another GrecoRoman god (in the style of Apollo, as an homage)?
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
Apollos chief epithet, Phoebus is my vote. Though it seems to only be common among the ancients.
Someone already owns voyager.com - naming a product can be difficult these days as most common names are taken.
Voyager is fine, although Wef Wef is such a nice, unique name I actually love it a lot.
~~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!
Stick with wefwef. It has an originality unlike voyager (plenty of those)
I prefer voyager, or even “voyage”.
Adding my vote to keep wefwef. I think it's more fun than Voyager or other options that have been proposed.
Voyager sounds safer overall, but wefwef is cute and should be kept somewhere
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
Adama or Starbuck
Something like Voyager as suggested would be much more friendly to new users
Though personally I like both.
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.
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
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.
Vote for keeping wefwef. It’s kitschy and odd and unique.
I like the name wefwef reminds me of a cute dog barking at me.
Ez wefwef
For many ppl RIF is Reddit. For me wefwef is Lemmy.
Don't change.
I like the name, to be honest
Lemmynade? 🍋
Voyager sounds too generic. I like Wefwef
I prefer Wefwef, especially the dog barking sound. As an alternative I propose Lemlem - which sounds like a dog drinking.
"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.
Change it if you want but “Voyager” sounds like some corporate nothing app named by bean pushers and commitees.
I love Voyager!
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.