Let's Name This Place Updated: Round 2!

Site Management
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That’s kinda my plan. I want to see what shakes out of the whole process, and then when we get down to a few we can discuss TLDs. Assuming that this is going to be an Elsewhere.something site now, though, is premature.

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Ok, then for the discussion, let’s see what the possible endings are that can be jockeyed for Elsewhere.

Her’s the list. Seems like some of these things like .cafe are for specific industries. Not sure how that affects us.

elsewhere.life
elsewhere.room
elsewhere.talk
elsewhere.wow

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Same for me. I prefer Elsewhere but both cafe and zone do have an early 90’s vibe. I’d rather the TLD not stand out. Something like org does that well.

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.net?

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elsew.here?

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Yeah, net works for me as well. For me, I used to post at BBS but then I went Elsewhere. The .### is just part of the url to me.

I worked for a company that changed it’s legal name to Agency.Com. That always bugged me too.

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Unless I’m mistaken, .net isn’t available.

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I think in general a .net .org etc ending is going to be best long term.

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“Edge of town” still has a .net and .org available, which is kind of Elsewhere/End of the World-ish, but also Nick Cavey.

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Now I have the Crying Song stuck in my head. Except I hear: This is the crying blog. Instead of song.

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Reminds me of The Crying Game. I watched that not so long ago. Boy, that did not age well.

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Wow. It’s the Weeping Song, not the Crying Song.

Jukebox HMS Redux

How so? I haven’t seen it since I saw it in the theater on its original run.

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Also, feel free to comment about why you voted the way you did, support your favorites, or throw shade on your least favorites. I’m personally going to refrain from commenting on any particular names to avoid the appearance of impropriety.

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Aw - I had it narrowed down to 5.

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Reasons:

  • Elsewhere.cafe:
    … If it didn’t have connotations, it’d be my favourite. It has the right ‘feel’ and I could see it being used. (Plus I could say “Meanwhile, Elsewhere…” which deserves to be a thing.:wink:). Even works with the .cafe domain, which takes some doing.
    But it does have connotations, and I neither want to be that petty myself, nor reward pettiness. I do wonder about cutting one’s nose off to spite one’s face though. It’s a nice name. Is HMSelsewhere a compromise, or just a kludge?

  • AllThelikes.domain:
    …This is catchy and clever. Not so hot on the banner, but I could see this being effective in link-sharing and promoting articles elsewhere. [Edit: Unless the banner is just ‘ATL’? I think I like that.]
    On the down side, it is a little ‘link-farm-y’?

  • Commentariat.domain:
    Kinda what we’re about, and ‘The Commentariat’ should be a thing.
    Plus and minus that it’ll be taken as (gasp) Socialist (or worse!)
    (Adhocracy.domain likewise, but will we remain an adhocracy?)

  • Endoftheworld.domain
    The civilised edge of the Internet?

I’m not keen on the Numbersstation idea - lots of our peers know what numbers stations are, and we’re not about that. Annoying users by polluting their searches does not happy recruits make. Similarly snarkexchange

I’m also not keen on the ‘angry mutants’ ones, for more extreme versions of the doubts about elsewhere.

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I want to point out the edit, that if the AllTheLikes banner on the site is just ‘ATL’, then that becomes pretty damn good visually, with a play on the ATL/BTL distinction on news sites, to boot.

This may now be my favourite.

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ATL just makes me think of Atlanta.

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Fair point. I lack that context, so don’t see that.
Is that a general US thing, do you think?

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If you vote for AllTheLikes, the terrorists have already won.

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