Introducing Our New Name
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After more than a year of public and internal discussions, we're ready to announce our new name!
  • toothbrush
    13·
    17 hours ago

    Im always sceptical of name changes, because you trade a somewhat widespread known project name in for …nothing.

      • toothbrush
        13·
        16 hours ago

        I suppose. But I think, minetest as a project was strengthend by its proximity to minecraft. The big reason you pick up luanti is that its like minecraft, but free and with more modding freedom. I dont think this is bad thing to be reflected in a name. But good luck to them, maybe they can pull the name change off without hurting their public recognition too much.

        • ReakDuck@lemmy.ml
          14·
          15 hours ago

          I always thought minetest is a cheap minecraft clone, mainly for testing or smth.

          So yeah, its a good name change

          • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
            8·
            14 hours ago

            Yeah. I agree it’s rough to lose existing recognition, but I think the test in the name was hurting adoption quite a bit.

            When I tried mineTest last, I was thinking, “what the hell, this will amuse me for an afternoon.”

            I did not expect a feature complete game engine with a better more polished game than vanilla MineCraft.