Voyager, absolutely.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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Wefwef ftw!
Voyager is good.
Vote for keeping wefwef. Itβs kitschy and odd and unique.
Apollo went by many different names if you wanna go down that route: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo#Greco-Roman_epithets
I don't see anything wrong with wefwef, it just looks like a modern nonsense brand-word and easy to remember too. My wife commented that it reminded her of WOOF from the office
Voyager is nice. If we end up liking and using it a lot, we will give it a silly nickname.
Voyager sounds like an excellent name mate, much easier to tell new people. "hey Reddit is shit, download voyager instead"
Voyager Just sound too generic... Maybe Weffy?
How about Fluffy for Lemmy
Voyager goes well with the influx of refugees needing a new home
Maybe look and see whether there are other apps by the name first to avoid collision. Seems likely to be a common name.
I don't think should is the right word. I personally don't like the name much as it somehow sounds just off-putting to me (it doesn't read like a puppy sound, maybe because I am not a native English speaker). And there is clearly something to it as this is the only app where people are discussing changing the name. Even Jerboa seems to be safe from it even though the name sounds a bit weird.
Voyager seems way nicer and professional to me.
I have no problem with wefwef (although, yes, if it was supposed to read like a puppy sound I didn't get that at all), but if you change it I would not go with Voyager since it is too generic. If you google that, you get lots of hits already (mostly NASA and Star Trek, on my end), so it may make it harder for people to find it?
Am I the only one who doesn't know what wefwef stands for?
I believe the Dev said it isnβt an acronym, itβs 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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Voyager sounds too generic. I like Wefwef
Voyager does sound cool, and fits the theme of what youβre going for.
But other people mentioning discoverability has me leaning towards keeping the name wefwef. Or come up with an equally unique name.
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!
Whatβs in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
LIF (Lemmy is fun)
Captain Janeway is standing by to take command π«‘
Nevah!
You absolutely should. The new name is much better!