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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon abritinthebay

change project name

Open ehartford opened this issue 11 years ago • 19 comments

Unless the author of date.js will hand over the reins, I would suggest rebranding this effort for many reasons.

  1. SEO
  2. People know it's fresh
  3. relaxed expectations for backwards compatibility
  4. less confusion, people filing bugs in both places
  5. buzz, name recognition, identification

ehartford avatar Nov 25 '13 23:11 ehartford

I've thought about it. I'd want to keep DateJS somewhere in there as it's a) recognition and b) a fork not a totally different project.

Currently learning towards DateJS Evolved, though suggestions welcome and appreciated!

abritinthebay avatar Nov 25 '13 23:11 abritinthebay

He might just hand it over if you ask nicely. http://www.ext.net/author/geoffrey-mcgill/

ehartford avatar Nov 26 '13 00:11 ehartford

I've tried messaging him repeatedly - either he doesn't check his inbox (email OR forums) or he just isn't interested.

:(

abritinthebay avatar Nov 26 '13 00:11 abritinthebay

I know this is a bit off topic, but on the topic of contacting the original author, I wanted to get some feedback on a set of typescript definitions I started on my fork. I was hoping you could take a look.

RupertAvery avatar Dec 02 '13 02:12 RupertAvery

Will take a look :)

abritinthebay avatar Dec 02 '13 07:12 abritinthebay

How about DateJS++

Holzberg avatar Feb 13 '14 13:02 Holzberg

For what it's worth, I like DateJS++. Although any JS-based instances of the name are going to require some clever renaming. (DateJSxx, DateJSpp, etc)

armordog avatar Feb 18 '14 23:02 armordog

I like the ++ from a technical point of view however... here are my problems with it. Solutions welcome:

  • URL's are impractical for a site (datejsplusplus.com? Not good. datejspp.com? urggh)
  • The above issue with how the hell you represent the ++ characters without using them.

abritinthebay avatar Feb 19 '14 01:02 abritinthebay

We would love to hear that you change the name. Even this is not a "totally" different from dateJs, we can take a look at lodash & underscore

javasdivren avatar Mar 16 '14 02:03 javasdivren

Yeah, I'm open to suggestions. Right now it's "DateJS Evolved" which is fine but maybe not ideal.

As it's in NPM as "datejs" and it's basically a continuation of it... would be good to keep that in there somehow.

abritinthebay avatar Mar 16 '14 03:03 abritinthebay

What about datejs2?

atus avatar Apr 27 '14 00:04 atus

palmjs? Because dates are palms?

RupertAvery avatar Apr 27 '14 14:04 RupertAvery

I vote for date.js other options are datejs2, datejs++ dater.js

nsisodiya avatar Jun 10 '14 08:06 nsisodiya

My favorite is datejs2

ehartford avatar Jun 10 '14 22:06 ehartford

http://datejsevolved.com/ is this related? The links to npm and github dont work.

Is there a demo or a feature page somewhere?

startswithaj avatar Jun 11 '14 12:06 startswithaj

Oooo you found that! Damn you're good. I've not finished setting up that site yet! It's barely started.

But yes, that's real. There will indeed be a demo page on that site - it's just not there yet :)

abritinthebay avatar Jun 13 '14 16:06 abritinthebay

The NPM, Bower, and Github links are all updated there now btw - but it's no where near ready for general consumption.

abritinthebay avatar Jun 13 '14 16:06 abritinthebay

Another issue with the old name is that it may lead users (it led me) to incorrectly install the @types/datejs package,

StephenWTurner avatar Oct 01 '18 10:10 StephenWTurner

datejs_with_steroids 😆

daviscabral avatar Mar 09 '19 13:03 daviscabral