Should we change app names?

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.

Voyager is ok, but I do like Lunar. Lunar for Lemmy has such a good ring to it.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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’

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

Voyager is great!

I also like the idea of “shuttle” because that’s the program that came after Apollo in NASA.

Voyager 🤘

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.

What about Phoebus, the Roman name for Apollo?

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.

I think wefwef is original and fun. Keep it!

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.

Wefwef is weirdly arresting. I know not what it means, but it has a ring to it that makes it unique.

Voyager is just meh. More of the same.

"Athena". Same mythology theme as Apollo.

Functionality is what will keep people but having a better name, and establishing this as a spiritual successor to Apollo, will help get people through the door.

I like voyager. I’m for it.

The name wefwef is silly but that’s fine with me too. It’s probably silly because I don’t get it.

You could call it TitFart and I’d be stoked as fuck that it exists.

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.

Wefwef is just fine.

I mean Lemmy is named after Lemmywinks, the gerbil that went up Mr. Slave’s ass in South Park, so Wefwef is a great choice in comparison.

+1 for Voyager

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

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

Absolutely. WTF is “wefwef”?

If yes, maybe something to think about doing further down the track when there’s not a huge amount of migration. Every post directing new users to wefwef will become obsolete and so the app will be harder to find.

I personally love the name wefwef.

I think wefwef is a silly name and I’m surprised that so many people in the comment section like it, because I find the name to be cringeworthy (sorry).

But of course, I will still continue to use this app regardless of what it’s called, just like I still use DuckDuckGo as my search engine, despite it having a ridiculous name lol.

Team wefwef represent! Uniqueness is hard to come by. Let’s not blend into everything else by changing it!

Vote for keeping wefwef. It’s kitschy and odd and unique.

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.

Lyre. Lyre for Lemmy. Apollo played a lyre and it’s a cool sounding word.

What’s the story behind wefwef?

i like wefwef i think its unique and quirky

i like wefwef

I love Voyager! I think it’s a great name for an Apollo inspired app.

+1 for Voyager

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

I'm fine with whatever name, but wefwef isn't a deal breaker for me. I used an app called baconreader for 10 years. Which is a pretty silly name too.

Skylab (the NASA program that came after Apollo)

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 the one I like best

Voyager sounds great to me!

Weffy isn't bad if you want to keep the original name alive!

I love Voyager!

Ez wefwef

For many ppl RIF is Reddit. For me wefwef is Lemmy.

Don't change.

I like Voyager a lot better than the current name.

Voyager is a great name! Go for it.

Stick with wefwef. It has an originality unlike voyager (plenty of those)

Another vote for Voyager.

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

Wefwef is a silly name - sent by wefwef

Voyager sounds amazing - huge improvement over the current name which sounds like an unfortunate but mildly irritating STD

Gonna comment in case the upvotes don’t count, I’m really a fan of Voyager. Not a big deal if it were to stay Wefwef, but Voyager has more appeal to my ear. Either way, great app regardless of name.

Apollos chief epithet, Phoebus is my vote. Though it seems to only be common among the ancients.

I’m fine with Wefwef but I wish I knew what it meant.

wefwef is cute :C

I really like the name „voyager“ as an Hommage to Apollo

Voyager and Lyre are both nice suggestions, but I don’t like either even close to as much as I like wefwef. As an aside, the vote bottons being the opposite colors is hilarious.

My vote for wefwef since it‘s unique and snappy.

I prefer Wefwef, especially the dog barking sound. As an alternative I propose Lemlem - which sounds like a dog drinking.

wefmcwefface

Yes, wefwef app is brilliant though! But the name puts people off for sure!

Voyager sounds good to me!

Voyager does sound cool, and fits the theme of what you’re going for.

But other people mentioning discoverability has me leaning towards keeping the name wefwef. Or come up with an equally unique name.

+1 for Voyager

I like voyager for Star Trek vibes.

I like Wefwef. It is unique while Voyager is quite boring.

I’m not sure if this has been asked but I’m very curious about the origin of the name ‘wefwef’.

Seems like Voyager is a hit...

... but, I do offer another series of suggestions:

• Hubertos, the patron saint of hunters. In addition to linkages to a cure for rabies, he is the patron of hunters, which has fit with the lemmings and critters that we share online.
• Muroidea is the name for the superfamily of rodents, which you can read more about here.
• Artemis is another series of manned space flights from NASA.
• Ulysses is another example. Add in it being a name of a mythological explorer, and it adds another layer.
• Mushak: Ganesh, from the Hindu pantheon, rides a mouse. This mouse's name is Mushak according to some sects. As a divine mount, there's some fun pieces of lore and how this app is how Lemmy users can ride into knowledge of the world around them.
• Ratatoskr is a Norse rodent, who carries messages on the world tree in that mythology. As this app shares messages and connects people, it's a fun way to share the core mission of Lemmy.

Those are some ideas! Hopefully some of this is helpful!

Yeah, I think the name Voyager is a lot better than the current name

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

Another vote for a new name here. Voyager For Lemmy is good, but anything else also works. Recommending "WefWef" out loud to anyone is just silly, especially in other languages.

I like Voyager since it's a web app too, like it can "voyage" to any platform. Or even referring to federation, you can "voyage" between instances.

But then how am I going to remember World Economic Forum World Economic Forum?

Voyager sounds safer overall, but wefwef is cute and should be kept somewhere

I do like the name Voyager however, for me I'm reminded of the failed crypto service with the same name.

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

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.

titan

Someone already owns voyager.com - naming a product can be difficult these days as most common names are taken.

Voyager sounds too generic. I like Wefwef

I don’t many Wefwef. I’ve heard much worse.

That said, if you are going to change it, do it now and move on.

I like Voyager. Definitely prefer that to the current name.

Wefwef ftw!

But wouldn't that damage your.. brand recognition, so to speak? When someone doesn't know you've changed your name and therefore can't find you, they'll assume you don't exist anymore.

Nvm all that, they'll learn. ;)

Voyager sounds way, way better than Wefwef, plus it's in the same theme as Apollo, so that's great!

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.

NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.

I guess I should have come up with a Voyager reference. My mind went to Star Trek ships

Nevah!

I like the name wefwef reminds me of a cute dog barking at me.

Voyager sounds like an excellent name mate, much easier to tell new people. "hey Reddit is shit, download voyager instead"

+1 for Voyager, things are still young and evolving.

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

I prefer voyager, or even “voyage”.

Another GrecoRoman god (in the style of Apollo, as an homage)?

I would love to have it as Voyager, because the app seems to be Apollo's spiritual successor so might as well embrace the identity. Also, seeing that there are concerns that Voyager is taken by X or Y the simple addition of LM to the name should make distinct and free from any attachments. So:

Voyager LM

I cast my vote

Love the app but admittedly don’t care for the current name (great work and thank you BTW). Voyager is a great! Something like that might well speed adoption.

Vote for Voyager.

I like the name voyager, i think you should go for it

Is there a poll somewhere? What are all the proposed name so far?

Voyager is great

I'm loving wefwef on Safari on my MBP and on my iPhone as well. I think the name is quirky. Why would you want to change it?

App name isn't important to me, I'll use it under any name. Voyager does sound cool though, I think it's a good choice.

Great work on the app BTW, I really like it! Thank you, you're making the transition a lot easier

Adama or Starbuck

Something like Voyager as suggested would be much more friendly to new users

Though personally I like both.

I like Voyager more than wefwef but I think we can do even better

Yes god yes! Anything but wefwef lol. Voyager sounds great.

You absolutely should. The new name is much better!

Voyager, absolutely.

Lemmynade? 🍋

will there be a wefwef/voyager for android?

Voyager is vastly superior as a name. I’m on wefwef right now, but the name did make me immediately question it :)

Otherwise awesome client so far!

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

Voyager sounds good, if I were making an Apollo like app I’d also be tempted to call it Starbuck or Athena.

Although if you want to stand out, I’d also like to throw Interface into the ring as it is the interface for Lemmy.

I like the name, to be honest

Why can’t we have both?

Wefwef Voyager or Voyager by wefwef

Sounds like my childhood nickname. Am more attached to it than I should be

I like Interstellar more. It fits the fediverse because every instance is its own "galaxy" which can be "lightyears" away in the physical world, but like the movie, we're all connected through the "dimension" of the Internet.

How do I install the app? Cannot find it on Play

Adonis, son of Apollo

I vote "Woof". It's so stupid, it works, and I like it. :)

What about Lappy?

It's similar to Lemmy, but with 'app' in the middle.

I'm not against wefwef, but it sounds a bit silly. I like voyager, but in the end I think that the final word should be that of @aeharding

Oh yes, please. I know it’s shallow, but I don’t love the 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!

LIF (Lemmy is fun)

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!

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

What about Artemis? the name of the new NASA moon missions

Since those and this app are a spiritual successor to Apollo

How about Fluffy for Lemmy

Captain Janeway is standing by to take command 🫡

Rat

meant to be a meme but honestly i like this one.

Voyager I think fits nicely for a Kbin app. Especially since the whole idea behind the platform is it is decentralized and federated. When you think about it, what are you doing, but exploring that open web -taking a voyage.

Name is good woof woof haha

If people want to a change on name, you better do it now than later when people feel attached to "lemmy".

Voyager is nice

Voyager sounds good to me.

just "wef"

I like “Lunar”.

Hmm, that could work.

Ollopa?

1st vote would be Phoebus
2nd would be Voyager.

Voyager Just sound too generic... Maybe Weffy?

Artemis?

Voyager, Vger 🖖, Delphi

"any name" for Lemmy

Personally I think Voyager sounds Amazing

How about Ratatouille?

lemmyApp

I like the name voyager, i think you should go for it

Flemmy

Could you make a theme like on Apollo-default(the kind of blue that isn’t spaghett) please?

How about "Ruck Feddit"?

You're gonna lose all momentum and be harder to find if you change the name.