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?

Comment below!

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    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.

    • @XaeroDegreaz
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      91 year ago

      Not to mention you’d probably run in to that Voyager app that is a crypto exchange / wallet.

    • @Thunder_Caulk
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      31 year ago

      Agree to disagree then. In any case what name it takes, is just second in importance to the usability it provides. And I’m all for that, no matter what it will be called.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Fair enough.

        And yes, I agree that the quality of the app itself is more important than the app’s name.

        • @Hfjdjdjdjdkkd
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          1 year ago

          Coming from the firedumpster reddit has become, and seeing such a civil and polite interaction between 2 users just brings tears to my eyes…

          • @[email protected]
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            11 year ago

            I’m also new to Lemmy (I signed up during the two-day Reddit blackout), but I’m already getting the sense that Lemmy is a classier place than Reddit :)

            I just hope that Lemmy will continue to grow, but without picking up the toxicity found in Reddit (and other social media platforms).

    • @XaeroDegreaz
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      11 year ago

      Not to mention you’d probably run in to that Voyager app that is a crypto exchange / wallet.