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Domain name change to www.yeahhackney.com (21 posts)

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yeahhackney said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

Hi all,
I am trying out http://www.yeahhackney.com as a default address instead of the previous http://www.fuckyeahhackney.com, the decision came about when I saw a tweet that prevented someone posted on a forum due to the site being blocked at work, which doesn’t feel particularly inclusive. I will keep referring to the site as FuckYeah Hackney.

The site and all it’s pages are currently available at both urls but it would ask you to log in separately for both addresses and for the next couple of days you might find links in urls point you to the home page as opposed to where you wanted to go.
I’m trialling this for now and would be interested to get people’s opinions on the change
Thanks

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kuxi said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

Good to tackle this issue. Are you open to other domain names? If you’re keeping the branding the same then would a shortened/abbreviated URL work? Like fyh.com

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yeahhackney said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

I’ve grappled with a few ideas and done a few searches and I quite like yeahhackney – I was using both, but css and images were also being blocked. Maybe an abbreviation, but no way can I get a 3 letter domain name!

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thereminwar said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

Fuck yeah!

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patricksmithjournalist said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

I agree with the change – I’ve never been a fan of the Fuck Yeah meme, personally, and I always wonder if it turns some people off using some sites. At the risk of sounding old fashioned, I think you can still be enthusiatic about something without swearing. There’s no fucking need.

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philsheard said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

Good call, I’d not thought of the fact that lots of emails and forums block swearwords. I guess ‘Flip Yeah Hackney’ and ‘Heck Yeah Hackney’ didn’t make it through to the last round?

…and @patricksmithjournalist – nice finish

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eliotf said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

This makes me sad.

Can you make fuck.yeahhackney.com something awesome in reference to the death of the beloved fuck.

If we find a classic corporate swearword banlist and pull in a stream of tweets which contain these words and “hackney”.

Or a collection of the companies that blocked it for “fuck” and maybe an auto-generated certificate-of-puritanical-ways which they and frame and put up in the canteen.

I think my last idea may be a little off subject.

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kuxi said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

loosing the fuck also makes me sad

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yeahhackney said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

Losing the fuck makes me sad too, but it’s only going to get more difficult.

Although I am still in 2 minds about it – I might just fucking put it back

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alexpink said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

I understand the reason for dropping it but it is sad to see it go. Call it fookyeahhackney.com instead?!

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yeahhackney said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

the twitter name remains – the name of the site remains, it’s just the URL and calls to files with the work “fuck” in it that seems to be causing some issues

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hopsyturvy said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

Booo. I guess there’s a sensible reason for it. I’m just not sure I would have signed up in the first place if it weren’t for the indulgent name.

–What does this say about me probably nothing good–

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yeahhackney said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

@hopsyturvy – you can still access is at http://www.fuckyeahhackney.com – just pretend it never changed

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anttix said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

I guess changing it to ‘yeahwhateverhackney’ changes things a little. That said, I was in two minds as to whether to send my mum some links to anything with the word ‘fuck’ in the title. She still thinks I don’t swear. Bless.

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yeahhackney said 1 year, 6 months ago ago:

it’s still positive Hackney – and it still says Fuck in the page titles

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