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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I like Voyager! Much better than Wefwef.
I could also see LEM for Lunar Excursion Module, the technical name of the lunar lander during the Apollo missions (a nice nod to Apollo app). Also has the benefit of being similar to Lemmy.
Lemmy Excursion Module!
That has a very nice ring to it.
That’s clever, but it’s not a lemmy app. It’s for the Fediverse, right?
As far as I’m aware wefwef.app is Lemmy-only.
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My vote for LEM. Short, crisp, and fun.
Yep LEM is good
Voyager is the name of the default testing instance for the Lemmy project AFAIK. Having two things in the Lemmy-verse called Voyager will be confusing.
Wefwef is nice for SEO and unique, so i don’t mind it, but like you said—i don’t know how to pronounce it.
My suggestion would be “Mooshuck”. Sounds fun, is easy to pronounce, doesn’t have any well-known project with that spelling, and means “little mouse” in Sanskrit. This would be keeping in line with Lemmy and Jerboa which are little rodents.
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Voyager is ok, but I do like Lunar. Lunar for Lemmy has such a good ring to it.
I would download Lunar for Lemmy in an instant!
Sounds like an Ubuntu release codename.
Yeah, Lunar sounds really good
Lunar does sound pretty cool, voyager is meh imo
I like the name lunar too.
If there is a new name, I hope that the new name is space-themed, given that this app is inspired by Apollo.
Love this. Lunar for Lemmy has a fantastic ring to it, and fits the theme from the app this site draws inspiration from.
Hmm. It would be very un-apple-like (and thus un-apollo-like) to choose an adjective for an app name.
These are unnecessary constraints to judge a name by. Apple also wouldn’t name an app wefwef, so we’re already in a realm with more freedom.
Lunar really picking up Steam. ALL ABOARD THE LUNAR TRAINNNNN
Think this would work
Reminds me of the Sega Cd/Saturn/PS1 game, which is a good thing.
LUNAR FTW haha
Voyager
I quite like Voyager continuing Apollo’s space program theme.
Another option in tribute to Apollo is “Delphi”.
Delphi is the site of the Temple of Apollo and was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world. The ancient Greeks considered the centre of the world to be in Delphi.
As well as the links to Apollo, Delphi’s history is of a community sanctuary and a central source of wisdom.
The term Delphi is more unique than Voyager so it will be more searchable and should be easier to secure a domain name.
Here are a few interesting quotes from the Delphi Temple of Apollo wiki:
The Temple of Apollo, was a major part of the Panhellenic religious sanctuary located in Central Greece at Delphi. The temple and sanctuary at large were dedicated to one of the major Greek deities, Apollo.
Within the ancient Greek world, Delphi was considered the center of the universe, marked by the omphalos, or “navel”, of the Earth that was located in Apollo’s sacred temple. The Temple of Apollo at Delphi was perceived as an incredibly sacred site, considered a major center of ancient Greek religious practice and belief as well as a place intimately connected to the gods.
The exterior of the temple was also decorated with metopes, with five major depictions of gods and heroes being victorious over monsters, a mirroring of Apollo’s defeat of Python during the mythological founding of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi.
The priestesses of Apollo, known as the Pythia, served as the oracle for the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Greeks and non-Greeks alike would go to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi from across the Mediterranean and beyond to consult the Pythia on a variety of different topics, ranging from the state level like the establishment of new colonies to the personal level like marriage, children, and health.
Please take this vote for Voyager. It’s a nice nod to Apollo, and it is a real word that people are familiar with.
Or Artemis. I’m not biased
wefwef is unique, easy to remember and easy to type. If you search for it, it’s already on page 1.
You hit all the markers for a good brand. That will be hard to recreate with an ancient god name.
Keep it.
This. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
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Wef wef
Not really, this is barely starting period and the page number 1 post you’re talking about is mine where I suggest changing the name to Voyager lol.
For me the GitHub repo is on page one.
it’s not easy to remember. I saw a post about it and went back later to check out the app and I kept thinking “mew mew” or “wep wep”
I legitimately forgot the name while typing this comment and had to make sure it’s not actually “wep wep”
Wafwaf :)
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It’s not easy to remember. I prefer not to have too many things on my HomeScreen, trying to find this thing via Spotlight is always frustrating. Certainly wouldn’t have this issue with Voyager.
I’m gonna vote for wefwef over voyager. It’s much more unique and googleable. Voyager is gonna turn up Star Trek and a bunch of other generic stuff. Go for something unique!!
I didn’t think about this and holy hell it’s a good point.
Awhile back I was looking for a band who had the misfortune of using a name that is ungooglable many years before google existed.
Was almost impossible to find anything.
!!! fans lol
Excellent point!
Voyager works, literally anything other than wefwef
I personally am down for the name change. Voyager sounds much more iconic and is easier to pass on verbally than wef wef. It’s also better to make such a change as early as possible to avoid confusion for newcomers.
The verbal part is probably my biggest gripe about wefwef. I love it otherwise.
I don’t like wefwef, mostly because of that (and how it looks like a sex term), but while Voyager sounds cool it has no uniqueness. And while it’s nice to reference Apollo, the entire design already does, the name doesn’t need to. That said I back “LEM” since it does relate, and also relates to Lemmy.
I’m curious, what do you mean by the verbal part?
Telling people about it verbally.
why? what’s bad about calling something wefwef? it’s just a few repeating sounds. seriously I don’t get it.
Plus Star Trek
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.
Very true. The name is instantly recognisable, that’s important
Wefwef is kinda silly but it has the SEO for it, nothing else on the net will not be the app right?
If I googled voyager I’m picturing some Star Trek results n other random shit (thinking of new people googling or searching the App Store)
Phoebus is cool, but might run into generic SEO and like Tildes……’howd ya say it IRL? Feeebus?? Foe-bus’
Ngl, I think wefwef is an odd title but I quite enjoy the randomness of it, you know?
Yea exactly, it’ll grow on ya and then it’s it.
wefwef is memorizable, but I’d like to know what it stands for
I’d like to know what it stands for
literally nothing. It’s a name I came up with out of pure laziness: it’s where my fingers rest on the keyboard and I can type it one-handed 😂
Good you can add a slogan: wefwef - save your right hand for more important tasks ;-)
Honestly I like the name wefwef. It is easily searchable especially when it is not exactly easy to search things across the Fediverse.
This alone already counts as lore!
I’d appreciate a new name, but now I’m conflicted.
I feel the same way, liked the sound of Voyager but wefwef has a better back story. Wefwef is also more unique.
Yeah but try saying it out loud, then imagine trying to recommend it to someone. They’re gonna think you just barked at them.
I suppose its sounds so odd right now because it’s new. A lot of company/app names sound kind of dumb until we get used to it. The names Tiktok, Twitter, Kijiji, Snapchat, Bumble, Reddit, all sounded silly to me when I first heard them. Now I don’t even think twice about their names.
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Time to retcon a meaning for it now, if you’re going to keep it. I’m really enjoying using it and the name is incidental, but I love a good invented mythology too.
Will you make it an app or will it be web based forever?
It’s possible
Let’s hope so!
Thank god! I was too afraid to ask and I thought I was just old and uncool for not knowing what it meant! 😅
Voyager is great!
I also like the idea of “shuttle” because that’s the program that came after Apollo in NASA.
Changing now would not be a good idea. There’s a bunch of Apollo users looking for a new home (I’m in this group) and we’re all hearing about how great wefwef is.
Changing the name risks confusing people and missing new users.
Voyager 🤘
🖖 That’s the correct emoji
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