I'm of the mindset that renaming a product causes all kinds of headaches. There is such a wonderful wealth of information about TiddlyWiki on the web. Change the name of a product, and searching the web for resources starts to break down.
Similar story: I'm a big fan of the Seagull M4 (previously called the Seagull "Merlin"). When Godin Guitars changed the name, we'd have folk talking about the M4, others talking about Merlin, often folk would refer to the instrument with both names (like "Merlin/M4"). Huge pain in the rear. I can imagine loads of folk snicker at "TiddlyWiki", but from my experience since 2006 trying to convince folk at work to setup an internal wiki, nobody took me seriously because of the word "wiki". Flash forward 14 years, and I still can't convince folk at work to use internal wikis (despite the awesome one I've put together for my work) ... they prefer a mess of OneNote files. Bleurk. Maybe it might make more sense to have TiddlyWiki as-is, but maybe keep TiddlyWiki as a "community edition", and have an exact copy of it re-badged for marketing purposes (a "professional edition")? With a name that doesn't have either "Tiddly" or "Wiki" in it? I suppose "Tiddler" would also need renaming? On Monday, March 2, 2020 at 9:08:23 AM UTC-4, bimlas wrote: > > Continuation of the > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/MKVwkEmCimQ thread. > > In a nutshell: TiddlyWiki is gaining popularity because it appears in more > articles and podcasts, but most of the time they smile at its name, so it > doesn't seem to be taken seriously (although at the end of the test they > usually praise the software itself). The name TiddlyWiki may hinder its > distribution, so we should consider renaming it. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d3656d5f-0969-4472-811d-f13acbaf8573%40googlegroups.com.
