Timeline for What should this site be called now that it's getting a design?
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| May 7, 2019 at 20:42 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | Thanks for sharing that view. More importantly than being a non-programmer view, it highlights how different a view can be from someone outside the PPCG community, which is important if we want to be approachable for other coders/golfers | |
| May 7, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @trichoplax Thanks! Looks good! Since you ask, my personal preference of the ones I've seen so far is to use "& coding challenges". It's not really long, which is nice. For me, "contests" implies a prize... you enter a contest to win something and here, all you're getting is votes. When we have a "contest" on the network, that's usually coupled with some physical prize, so "contests" seems like the wrong message. The real content here (from what I see) are challenges - even code golfing itself is a challenge - where the goal is to make the code as short as possible. | |
| May 7, 2019 at 20:28 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | @Catija Thanks for the suggestion. I've posted a discussion about the subtitle. I'd also be interested in the perspective of a non-programmer (even if just as an informal comment here, but might be relevant to decision making too) | |
| May 6, 2019 at 22:23 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @trichoplax As I commented on one of the other answers - if someone would like to take this discussion to a new question so that the votes may be more balanced, I think this is a good time for that. I can't guarantee that we'll go with this style but it looks good to me. What we really need to know is, if we do this, what should it say. I've got a personal favorite but I'm also... well, not a programmer. | |
| May 6, 2019 at 13:36 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | There are now a number of newer answers suggesting this idea but with a different subtitle. It's worth considering the voting on those (which hasn't had time to accumulate yet) and also the comment discussions on them | |
| May 5, 2019 at 18:06 | comment | added | xnor | @Catija Yes, the idea is that the subtitle would only appear in the top banner. But, as per the comments above, I think we want to vote on a subtitle and not necessarily go with "and other programming challenges". | |
| May 5, 2019 at 11:06 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | Or maybe "and other code contests" | |
| May 5, 2019 at 11:06 | comment | added | trichoplax is on Codidact now | I upvoted for the idea of a subtitle, rather than for this particular example. I'd prefer "and code contests" | |
| May 4, 2019 at 8:54 | comment | added | ais523 - high effort answers | @Catija: Yes, I think that's the idea. | |
| May 4, 2019 at 8:54 | comment | added | ais523 - high effort answers | @Belhenix: because the site isn't about programming puzzles any more; lots of people want to move away from that name because it's misleading new users as to what's ontopic here. (There's some debate about whether programming-puzzle posts are disallowed altogether or just rare. However, the most recent non-closed post that's has the programming puzzle tag correctly applied to it was posted on February 26, and the next-most recent was posted in November 2016, so those posts are at least rare enough that mentioning them in the site title would be highly misleading.) | |
| May 4, 2019 at 1:57 | comment | added | Belhenix | Why not keep this and the original name? "Code Golf" as the title and "& Programming Puzzles" as the subtitle (similar to the ELL SE). Also it could be reverse and keep it as the exact same name, just with a proper format. | |
| May 3, 2019 at 21:08 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | .... so... is the idea that everywhere the site name is listed, it'd just be "Code Golf" - the site selector, full sites list, etc... but on the top banner, it'd have this subtitle? | |
| May 3, 2019 at 2:42 | comment | added | Jo King | Perhaps a secondary vote would be necessary to decide the subtitle | |
| Apr 30, 2019 at 3:33 | comment | added | ais523 - high effort answers | @xnor: My intention was to allow people to suggest subtitles using other answers on this post, and giving that as a default if nobody suggested one. It seems like we've run up against the usual Stack Exchange issue that it's hard to get an actual consensus / clear answer via Meta, rather than a range of understanding about opinions. (For example, the answers here seem to be broadly in favour of a particular concept – titling the site with Code Golf and ensuring that this is clarified within the interface – and yet the details are still in flux. Maybe we need a separate post for that.) | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 18:19 | comment | added | xnor | Is "and other programming challenges" the subtitle we're voting on here, or is it just an idea for a subtitle we'd determine later? I ask because I think this particular subtitle is too clunky and don't want to get stuck with it by mistake. | |
| Apr 29, 2019 at 16:09 | comment | added | Dennis Mod | I think renaming the site to Code Golf and keeping a small clarification in the logo is the best of both worlds. | |
| Apr 28, 2019 at 8:03 | history | answered | ais523 - high effort answers | CC BY-SA 4.0 |