Don’t really roll off the tongue does it?
It does for me. It’s a portmanteau of voxel and libre wit the last l of the first word and first l of the 2nd word shared. If you don’t pause at the caps and just roll straight through. It rolls just fine and is rather clever.
I think Libre in general is an awkward sound for me
Lee-bruh. I don’t really see a problem.
deleted by creator
voxe-lee-bruh
Lee-bruh
This is how I always sounded it in my head. Issue is, it sounds exactly like “libra”
Depends really. I say it this way, but talked to a Spanish speaker who said it was Lee-bree.
In Spanish it would be lee-bray
As a Spanish speaker, this makes me uncomfortable. Not saying you’re wrong, just… English is weird
It really doesn’t, yeah. But the vocal minority decided.
It was done by a poll on Discord, Matrix, and our issue tracker. I think over 120 votes were cast. It was a polling majority…
Why have a poll on a proprietary closed-source software, though? Why not exclusively in the MT forums where the most users are?
You seem to not like the name or the things we do. Maybe tell us more about what you like…
We had the poll on Matrix also which is FOSS, and our issue tracker built on Gitea. The minetest forums are notoriously sluggish and many there don’t play VoxeLibre. We reached out to players in all areas. The fact remains that 80%+ of our players choose discord and ignoring them is not a helpful. A lot of people do not check the forum frequently, and that policy would be exclusionary and unjustifiably dogmatic.
We make extra efforts to reach out to our members in FOSS communities and do more than most to keep away from non-free software like Github and keep our channels bridged to matrix.
I can assure you the effort is non trivial and takes away from actually writing open source software. Very recently it lost all the data and we had to manually bridge 15+ channels again when I had waay too much other stuff going on. Many projects abandon these bridges because they are unreliable.
Why did they want a new name?
Might be to reduce risk of legal action by Microsoft (not that they’d have a legal leg to stand on, but that doesn’t seem to matter these days)
You can copy my homework but don’t make it obvious… MineClone
Submits a photocopy of someone’s homework to the teacher
Because MineClone2 is a dreadful name, and unfortunately, when ever anyone tries to differ anything slightly, a head can be taken clean off. The project doesn’t want to be a full clone, but heavily inspired by, but with it’s own direction. It needed to go.
