Hello! I’m craftyindividual, surviving admin of the group.

I’ve been pondering for some time but would prefer a more appropriate name for the group (named in haste after a Reddit group) - open to suggestions and placing a poll. Art and Traditional Art are already taken.

So far I’m considering:

Art for the masses Art attack I can’t believe it’s not Art

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    212·
    8 months ago

    I’ve been pondering for some time but would prefer a more appropriate name for the group

    You can’t change the group name only the display name, so you are stuck with !artporn@lemm.ee - you might as well just go with it now. Most people will understand it’s not for porn but part of the larger “porn” family of communities.

    • somnuz@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 months ago

      I don’t know how the trend of SomethingPorn and SomethingCore naming scheme will continue to grow, it definitely is quite catchy and produces short names but every time I see one of those it feels more like some form of a guilty pleasure than a name with an actual effort.

      Art gallery is simple, obvious and really fitting to escape that trend. Exhibition would do the similar trick but I understand it might be less searchable.

  • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
    81·
    8 months ago

    “Classic Art” or “Classic Art Gallery” based on the sharings I’ve seen, and btw-- thanks so much for all your work! (hopefully bot-assisted?)

    OTOH, I can’t help but wonder if you’re perhaps overthinking this…

    On the internet at least, “something-porn” seems like a pretty clear and instant signpost for the masses, and that’s arguably most important of all. It also possesses the zeitgeist of being down to earth and not overly haughty, so to speak. *shrug*

    • craftyindividual@lemm.eeOPM
      2·
      8 months ago

      Oh no it’s cool. That’s why I picked the name. It’s just if I want to show the art to someone… who is less of an internet person I wouldn’t like them to be offended. Pretty sure we can stuck with this name.

  • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    41·
    8 months ago

    Definitely don’t change it. The name is a major attractor for people looking for this kind of sub. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

  • Paragone@lemmy.world
    16·
    8 months ago

    Awesome-Art Awesome-Art.Painting Awesome-Art.Drawing etc.

    Removing indexing from everything is an Antipattern:

    by forcing everybody to choose between

    • CONTINUOUSLY SPAMMED ABOUT EVERYTHING, IN THE HOPES OF CATCHING THE TINY PERCENTAGE THEY CARE ABOUT, xor

    • blocking ALL notifications about new-items in a community

    ISN’T TheRightAnswer™.

    Lemmy & Reddit both got that wrong…

    ( all the gaming stuff should have been under r/Gaming & c/Gaming, e.g, so interested people could go there, & uninterested people could just mute that entire tree of communities )

    I’m not caring how the formatting is done ( hyphens, dots, underscores, alternative-hairstyles, whatever ),

    but some consistent means of identifying the nature, and the subset, of a community, would be welcome by many people, in the information-deluge world we inhabit.

    Just a thought, please let consensus settle it, not some random autistic, eh?

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    • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
      4·
      8 months ago

      That’ll never work. Say for instance there was a fan fiction community for The Last of Us; is this a gaming community, a TV show community, or a literature community? Really it’s all of the above, so you have to use a more awkward name to fit into one category that doesn’t even fully describe the community.

      No, if you want to categorise communities like that it shouldn’t be done through the name. You’ll need to build a separate tag or label system instead, allowing communities to properly identify with multiple tags.