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Re: How Bvckup got its name

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Post by zepolen »

latitude wrote: post #14
kooshball wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Consider Dribbble, Forrst or even XKCD - having an immediately obvious phonetic form does not appear to be a firm requirement for the name as long as its predominant usage is online. I'm not sure how your examples there help you at all. Each of them have clear pronunciation: dribble, forest, XKCD each letter spelled out. bee-vee-cup is not intuitive at all. If you show the logo to me I would have guessed "Backup" w…

Examples don't mean to help, they were meant to illustrate the point that followed. The ease of pronunciation and the ability to spell the name from its audible form are not all that important in the online context. This is a conjecture, not a fact, but based on what I've seen so far it appears to be a valid one. Moreover that stumble that your brain does when seeing it for the first time, it makes the name memorable…

The name is alright, although personally I pronounce it bvvvkup in my head rather than bee-vee-ckup, but the point is that it's memorable. Explaining it over the phone to someone might be harder.

The logo is a miss though imho, I honestly thought it was an upside A as well. You could probably rectify it without losing the original concept though, for example: http://i.imgur.com/u0z2X.jpg

Re: How Bvckup got its name

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Post by latitude »

_ouxp wrote: post #19
latitude wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bee-vee-cup , but here's the thing - in two years of it being in beta this has never come up as a real issue. I guess this can impede a word of (physical) mouth to a degree, but the assumption here is that few people are going to need to actually pronouce the name. Consider Dribbble, Forrst or even XKCD - having an immediately obvious phonetic form does not appear to be a firm requirement for the name as long as its…

I would've guessed that you were going for 'buckup' with a latin v (pronounced u). Akin to SVPPLY.

Yep, or akin to Bvlgari... which is what helped turning Backupus Vulgaris into Bvckup. But in the end I had to keep a safe distance from #uckup for obvious reasons.

Re: How Bvckup got its name

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Post by latitude »

zepolen wrote: post #21
latitude wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Examples don't mean to help, they were meant to illustrate the point that followed. The ease of pronunciation and the ability to spell the name from its audible form are not all that important in the online context. This is a conjecture, not a fact, but based on what I've seen so far it appears to be a valid one. Moreover that stumble that your brain does when seeing it for the first time, it makes the name memorable…

The name is alright, although personally I pronounce it bvvvkup in my head rather than bee-vee-ckup, but the point is that it's memorable. Explaining it over the phone to someone might be harder. The logo is a miss though imho, I honestly thought it was an upside A as well. You could probably rectify it without losing the original concept though, for example: http://i.imgur.com/u0z2X.jpg

That is the exact change I was thinking of making. Thanks for the nudge.
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