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It applies to anyone who hears about TGChan through any of the references that already exist, and anyone who continues to use its name instead of the one and only new real name.
Even if this site's users have no choice but to abandon its identity, that doesn't mean that everyone on other sites will follow suit. There would be a large amount of confusion and inconvenience as people find references to it, or try to "fix" statements that they already made which suddenly became "wrong" while they weren't looking, or don't/can't change them and end up leading other people here through the "bad" name. And if they don't hear about it before coming here, they'll eventually find one of the numerous references to the site as TGChan that are already here, thereby getting confused about that.
If TGChan's name continues to function properly, people will at least be able to know what it means when they use it.
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>Almost no one reads the FAQ.
It's where the style tags are listed, and users get plenty of use out of those.
The point is that people might make more use of the alternate names if information about them were in some easy-to-find place. That way, people who think they need it can use it. If they miss the information, and then start worrying that people are being driven off by the "chan" in our name, we can tell them about the alternate name; as of now, it's not doing those people any good because they're not using it. It's not fair to say a type of medicine can't treat an illness if the patients don't take the medicine.
>Thatquestsite was pushed as an alternate name a lot when it happened nine years ago but because it wasn't an official actual name change a lot of people didn't really want to update bookmarks
In other words, it fell out of use is because people didn't want to use it. The fact that they had a choice in the matter isn't what I'd call the root of the problem.
That aside, the option is still there. If some people find that the site's name is causing problems for them, then they have an alternate name available for use. Updating URLs when they're talking and adding new bookmarks for themselves is understandably inconvenient, but it'll be worth doing if the site's name is really that much of a problem, and they would have to do it anyway if they wanted to avoid their issues with the other name.
>and it was awkward with people linking the various different names the site used and having different sets of cookies.
There are solutions to that. You could, for example, have a way to import or synchronize their cookies across both URLs for users who want to use both URLs regularly. Or an option that users who use both URLs regularly could toggle to redirect them to their preferred URL, so they don't have to use both if they don't want to. That wouldn't be too hard, would it? Other sites have the same "multiple URLs for the same content" thing going on while also having cookies, and they seem to make it work.
>Any new features added like post editing or a sfw mode also get awkward with the multiple names.
They would? I'm not aware of any such problems that they're causing already. Since both names access the same data, I don't see why those specific hypothetical features would be, as you put it, awkward.
Either way, the idea that the site's existing features might be awkward with other features which might be implemented in the future doesn't necessarily mean there's a problem with them.
>One time slight confusion for old users
Again, a forced rename would not be "one time slight" anything. It would be a permanent, unilateral change for everyone that clashes with over ten years of history. There are places all over the site and in many places on many other sites where our name is used, and people will find their way here from there. What if someone comes here through an old drawing made for a quest here? What if someone finds an old quest that was crossposted somewhere else and mentions us here? What if someone finds something that's directly named after TGChan? What if someone just keeps using our name? A rename won't just be a neat, easy little one-and-done deal, all those existing references will be around no matter what.
>confusing both old and new users forever
Aside from the above, that would actually be less of a problem if we used the alternative names. People would go to one URL, find this site, go to another URL and find the same site; at that point they'd probably think "oh, so the site has multiple links to it". It wouldn't be enough to drive people away.
>Having multiple names actively in use again is a much more drastic change to how the site is used than simply changing the name.
Allowing some people to use a different name for themselves isn't a much bigger change than forcing a permanent name change on everyone. If by "drastic change" you mean a problem of some sort, well, we haven't had any such problems with the existing system because people haven't been using it.
That last part is the part to focus on at the moment. We have a problem: people think we're being pre-judged by strangers because of our URL. We have a solution to this problem already implemented: an alternate URL that leads to the same site, that people could use when linking to us. People haven't been using the solution they have available, probably because they don't know about it or it didn't occur to them. Let's give it a chance. It's better to use the existing option to see if it works than to risk all the issues inherent in a forced name change.
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