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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] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I like the name, to be honest

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Voyager, absolutely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lemmynade? 🍋

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I prefer voyager, or even “voyage”.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Wefwef ftw!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Voyager sounds too generic. I like Wefwef

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Apollo went by many different names if you wanna go down that route: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#Greco-Roman_epithets

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

How about Fluffy for Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe look and see whether there are other apps by the name first to avoid collision. Seems likely to be a common name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Voyager Just sound too generic... Maybe Weffy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Am I the only one who doesn't know what wefwef stands for?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I believe the Dev said it isn’t an acronym, it’s just where he found his hands placed on his keyboard one day, the WEF keys.

I did ask GPT-4 to make an acronym for it anyways, and got:

W- Web

E- Enhanced

F- Fediverse

W- Webapp

E- Explorer

F- Framework

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Voyager goes well with the influx of refugees needing a new home

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

Reddit is a dumb name. Silly/dumb names work IMO.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Maybe we should come up with a new names and put them up for votes.

I can say right now that I don’t like Voyager, haha!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

LIF (Lemmy is fun)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I honestly don’t care what it’s called. I have no idea what wefwef means or even how to pronounce it. I appreciate the work done to make it for us though.

[–] SeedyOne 1 points 2 years ago

I'm game with Voyager, love the app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Another vote for Voyager.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

wefwef is unique as an identity and the all lowercase styling makes it even more so.

I vote for wefwef and hopes it remains that way!

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