this post was submitted on 01 Nov 2025
3 points (100.0% liked)

FediWriMo

116 readers
9 users here now

Introduction

Welcome to the new Fediverse Writing Month Community. This community is for the continuation of NaNoWriMo in spirit, without any connection or relationship with the original organization / organizers.

Wiki

FediWriMo Wiki Index

Guidelines

(Coming Soon)

Journaling January

TrackBear Join Code: 257ef994-e7d6-4de0-a847-a6e15cf8ed6d

founded 2 months ago
MODERATORS
Unattributed@feddit.online
unatributed@lemmy.today
unattributedCC@midwest.social
Unattributed@thebrainbin.org
3
Should I Change The Name? (feddit.online)
submitted 2 months ago by Unattributed@feddit.online to c/nanowrimo2@feddit.online
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Just a thought: I created this community very quickly without giving much thought to the name...basically because I was basing it on the NaNoWriMo2 website.

However, maybe it would be better to break away from the NaNoWriMo branding? I could make it more specific to our corner of the internet. I'm thinking maybe FediWriMo.

Let me know what you think below. Suggest alternate names, and if there is a good one with a lot of up votes, we can maybe go with that one instead (but no Boaty McBoatface type meme names, please...).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Unattributed@feddit.online 1 points 2 months ago

I've gone ahead and done a new banner and logo for the community, and changed the name to FediWriMo. There were a couple of reasons for this:

  1. I didn't want to keep using the assets from the NaNoWriMo2 website.
  2. The assets that I copied weren't laying out nicely.
  3. I didn't want to keep the name as (a) it was associated with the NaNoWriMo2 website (ie, it could look like there was more of an association, when all we're doing here is referencing their site), and (b) I am concerned about the association with the previous organization.
  4. I didn't know the origin of all the assets (ie, the font and the shield).
  5. I was concerned that the "NaNoWriMo" part of the name is too off-putting.
  6. I strongly feel that drawing the association to the Fediverse is important for our identity.

So, yeah, I was going to wait until Monday. But seeing as this topic didn't have any comments in over twelve hours, I decided to just move forward.