Introducing Our New Name

I absolutely adore minetest and have an enormous amount of love and respect for the people who have built it into the phenomenal platform that it is.

But damn, they are not great at naming things.

I have long wished they would rename from minetest to something else, because as silly as it is, one of the biggest barriers of adoption I have run into is the name. When people hear the name, it is confusing and they think it is stupid and a joke. Hell, I even joke about it sometimes too.

Naming things is very difficult, so I do feel for them. I also will give this new name some time and see if it grows on me. I am a bit skeptical, but they have more than earned some trust.

Regardless, this is a fantastic game and a fantastic platform, and I really don't understand why so many people play Minecraft when there is an open open source alternative that is this good.

The code is genuinely very good, and is a pleasure to read. It is one of the things I love about a great open source project, where it was done for the love of the art, not just to grab a paycheck. The code is well thought out and well written, and dare I say even beautiful. Exactly my kind of project!

Lots of libre projects are terrible at naming things, I don't know why.

Doing the "use a word in some exotic language for some reason" is lazy and rarely great. Another example of that is "Forjego", they forked Gitea and went with some Esperanto word because... reasons.

It's actually Forgejo not Forjego, with this example further proving what a convoluted name it is, with the added bonus that there are at least two points where the pronunciation can vary widely (is the J as in Jack or as in Spanish Juan? Is the G as in Google or George?).

Oops my bad, I thought they went with it because it's in Go

If it's "Forgejo" I thing I would pronounce it like in "forget", then "jo" like in jack, not sure if that's close