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The name does matter... [message #19954 is a reply to message #19777]

Sat, 18 September 2004 22:15

Wild_Cat

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Wow! A courageous speech!
To speak against the name of the creation even subconsciously raises the creator against the person, first reaction would naturally be hostility. I've recently changed my name and my mother, very understanding person, at first reacted bad - I bet since I deny the name she gave me. I suppose it can be taken somewhat like this...

Yet, I am taking the risk to second this suggestion, hoping that authors will understand that only ones who truly care would speak about such delicate things...

For me, the current name had never been the problem because I run it on a non-profit thematic site. Yet, its ture that when I tell webmasters what forum software I ran it on, they are hearing this name for the first time. And they are giggling, because for non-english speaker it sounds at first place like "food" - not a serious name at all (not to mention quite really serious associations for English-speakers named by freephile, I see truth in it as a lignuist). And the name matters for the first impression to the point that many people wouldn't even dig deeper. I found it only because I was stubbornly looking for free sofware supporting threads and looking more or less nice! What do I find out now? Everybody knows Invision PowerBoard, nobody knows FUDforum Sad

which is not loosing a single point to the first named! Unfair!!!
And you forum deserves the best acknowlegement!

It doesn't mean you have to take a name of vanity like BestForum, myForum or stuff, but a decent name could be chosen. I would already come up with something more representative like
SmartForum
or..
PROforum
this one would be great indeed, the more that it TRULY reflects the quality of your sofware and yet doesn't sound boastfully at all.

It IS a matter of time for such decision to mature, of course, but if you ever get decided at least to consider this (OK, I see you've just bought a special domain name...) - well, you can make a contest among your faithful users and who knows, they may come up with something you will really like, may be even better than the current one, and may be it will really reflect on your prestige and gains accordingly? The contest can even be anonymous (in your PMs) - as for me, should I make the best suggestion, I don't care for credits, the more that best names would possibly be proposed more than once and may be they will only give you the idea for your own new name...

Well, at least don't be angry with us for our best impulses of recognition and wish for better fate and fame for your software as far as we may judge it best...

Lady of Avalon

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[Message index]

		Change the name By: freephile on Wed, 01 September 2004 04:44
		The name does matter... By: Wild_Cat on Sat, 18 September 2004 22:15
		Re: The name does matter... By: Ilia on Mon, 20 September 2004 20:49
		Re: Change the name By: dataj1998 on Tue, 21 September 2004 08:45
		Re: Change the name By: Wild_Cat on Tue, 28 September 2004 15:50
		Re: Change the name By: ajeffco on Tue, 05 October 2004 03:10
		Re: Change the name By: Ilia on Tue, 05 October 2004 14:52
		Re: Change the name By: ajeffco on Tue, 05 October 2004 15:59
		Re: Change the name By: Wild_Cat on Mon, 01 November 2010 18:17
		Re: Change the name By: naudefj on Wed, 03 November 2010 17:20
		Re: Change the name By: The Witcher on Tue, 09 November 2010 04:24
		Re: Change the name By: jerrys on Sat, 20 November 2010 16:22
		Re: Change the name By: Atomicrun on Sun, 21 November 2010 08:07
		Re: Change the name By: naudefj on Mon, 22 November 2010 02:31
		Re: Change the name By: BAD35th on Mon, 22 November 2010 15:25
		Re: Change the name By: The Witcher on Mon, 22 November 2010 17:55

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