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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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[–] 21racecar12@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Voyager, absolutely.

[–] wavymoney@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Lemmynade? πŸ‹

[–] bw1pjxzj@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Voyager sounds too generic. I like Wefwef

[–] szczur@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] talou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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

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[–] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I like wefwef it is unique, fitting and you already have brand requisition.

Voyager is fine but extremely generic and quite boring. You also have to fight for search results with a lot bigger and more famous players sharing the name.

[–] Quetzacoatl@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

No, I like the name wefwef! It is a perfectly fine name, it's unique to your project, granting you immediate recogniza- and googlability, and honestly, I don't understand most people advocating for a change. God forbid we had an app or service name that was a bit fun and unique for once! No, let's change the project name just as it's getting popular, confusing everyone and hurting your Google rank, just to have another bland and boring name instead that's completely forgettable and shared by hundreds of other things! Are most of these commenters, like, 12, and still at an age where it's very very important that your friends perceive you as using only what's a child's idea of "cool" stuff? I honestly can't think of any other reason. Name it Awesome Monster App then!

So, no, in short keep it at wefwef! Lowercase and fun pronunciation and all! And for next year's April Fool's, announce a big name change, and then reveal that name to be "weewee", just to fuck with all the haters. Wefwef is the best app/service name in years!

Just my two cents.

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[–] imrichyouknow@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

wefwef is decent, it's already got some tractions and recognitions, the SEO is already there as well. The logo on the other hand can use some works.

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[–] HeIlo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] a_hungry_rat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Scheissberg@feddit.de 2 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!

[–] Mdamon41@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think a bigger concern would be that Voyager already exists as a Crypto App with a significant amount of downloads.

In the spirit of Apollo, other possible names could be Artemis, Soyuz, Phoebus, Orion, Helios, etc. There’s no shortage of space programs/deities to pick from.

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[–] Dick_Justice@lemmy.world 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.

[–] LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] ferrent22@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Linkandluke@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Wefwef is a silly name - sent by wefwef

[–] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] Caketaco@lemmy.world 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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[–] Laice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Voyager Just sound too generic... Maybe Weffy?

[–] TheFreed@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] radiated@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

How about Fluffy for Lemmy

[–] luffyuk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] tal@kbin.social 1 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.

[–] Porgey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Voyager sounds great to me!

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