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Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by yjftsjthsd-h »

freedomben wrote: post #49

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…

Yeah, I've been on a minetest kick lately and it's a great game, and I can understand not wanting to call it "minetest", but minetest is 2 english words mashed together and one of them is extremely relevant/descriptive of the game in question. I personally even think that it's fine that it sounds like minecraft, because it... is basically minecraft but proper FOSS; that's approximately the reason I like it. This new name contains zero english words and frankly I'm having trouble getting my brain to hold it at all. Lua... something. And I only remember "lua" because I already knew about the programming language. I think I'm going to have to set up an alias or something on my machines so I can actually launch the thing now...

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by rdlw »

singpolyma3 wrote: post #44
barrettondricka wrote: post #14

Great, but I wish they invested their nomenclature resources into design and ease of access. https://bloxd.io/ is currently reaping kids who can't afford official Minecraft. (Browser based, free, ad driven) But then again, MineTest is a bunch of volunteers playing around with a tool, so you can't exactly force anybody to do anything.

So what exactly did you wish they did? Make a browser version?

Yeah, make a browser version with the time saved by not renaming the repository.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by thetoon »

barrettondricka wrote: post #12
skybrian wrote: post #6

The main website lists lots of games that are built on Minetest / Luanti. [1] Does anyone have opinions on which of them are the most fun to play? [1] https://content.minetest.net/packages/?type=game

I haven't played much myself, but VoxeLibre (and Mineclonia) are pretty good Minecraft replicas. My only complaint is mobile controls. Desktop is decent but the mobile version (off F-droid) leaves much to be desired.

VoxeLibre is trying to be less of a Minecraft replica, now. Mineclonia still is, though.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by notpushkin »

rdlw wrote: post #52
singpolyma3 wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So what exactly did you wish they did? Make a browser version?

Yeah, make a browser version with the time saved by not renaming the repository.

I think making a browser version would take a bit more time than that. The idea is nice though.

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by tetris11 »

yjftsjthsd-h wrote: post #51
freedomben wrote: post #49

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…

Yeah, I've been on a minetest kick lately and it's a great game, and I can understand not wanting to call it "minetest", but minetest is 2 english words mashed together and one of them is extremely relevant/descriptive of the game in question. I personally even think that it's fine that it sounds like minecraft, because it... is basically minecraft but proper FOSS; that's approximately the reason I like it. This new…

It's really weird to see it on HN as I've been diving into it hard this past week.

Voxelibre is a fantastic standalone pack, and I'm trying out some of the others.

I haven't ventured online but will at some point

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by Nullabillity »

Twirrim wrote: post #18
beeflet wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Minecraft Bedrock Edition is Microsoft's freemium children's game where you buy "mods" and "skins" using minecoins and you can visit a number of pre-approved pay-to-win servers or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. You might be confusing it with a beloved viral indie PC game called Minecraft (2011) which is…

> or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. Or you can just run your own dedicated bedrock edition server, no need to pay anyone. https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/download/server/bedrock

Not if you want to connect from the console ports without very awkward hacks (and if you're on PC you wouldn't be running Bedrock in the first place).

Re: Introducing Our New Name

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Post by Timwi »

beachy wrote: post #15

Why would you choose a new name that you don't have the .com for? How about voxelmod.com or something else that is a) relevant and b) the .com domain is available.

First off, there are more TLDs than just .com.

Secondly, the majority of people go to websites by googling them, not by typing a URL.

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